Only juridical reasoning, they claimed, was capable of sorting out the individual elements that nature or human art had brought together in a single unit; by establishing sets of distinctions and taxonomies worthy of Borges, legal discourse sought to demonstrate that behind the deceptive immediacy of things, lie the concepts and arguments of what one might call the artifices of the concrete.
among a plurality of subjects, and the creation of a juridical system for regulating claims and interests, are one concrete way of limiting power.
The effective distribution of power (political, economic, defense-related, technological, etc) among a plurality of subjects, and the creation of a juridical system for regulating claims and interests, are one concrete way of limiting power.
But Chile feels that its claims are based on strong juridical grounds, and President Augusto Pinochet Ugarte is not inclined to back away from danger.
In one sense it was a separation, especially a reaction against the rigid juridical structures of medieval Roman Catholicism and its claim to universal truth and jurisdiction.
Scarcely known or written about by English-speaking scholars, De Indiarum iure is regarded by some Spanish scholars as the most systematic juridical formulation of the legitimacy of Spain and Portugal's 17th century claims.
Although the decisions of Vatican II raised the possibility that the church would implement its teaching authority in a less juridical and less hierarchical way, Pope John Paul II reasserted the traditional claims of the teaching authority and emphasized the need for all Roman Catholics to adhere closely to a strict definition of orthodoxy.
The older definition, created in response to the claims of Protestantism, defines the church in external and juridical terms.
I argue that understanding the stakes of postindustrial urban development struggles requires attention to how concepts of (white) settler society – which have been absorbed into political and legal-juridical institutions, discourses, myths, symbols, and national metaphors – are used to claim "wild" and "empty" lands like those in Detroit.
The salvor, for his part, has a maritime lien on the salved property (in an amount determined by national statute or juridical custom) and need not return the property to the owner until his claim is satisfied or until security to meet an award is given.
