de jure

Speech parts

1. de jure - Adjective

2. de jure - Adverb

4. de jure - Phrase

Meaning

By right; of right; by law; -- often opposed to de facto.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

legally lawfully right true title legal bona fide proper properly valid constitutional legitimate mandate lawful rightful
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Antonyms

de facto crooked actual criminal evil illegal
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Examples

de jure recognition of the new government Source: Internet

we are lawfully wedded now Source: Internet

Bulgaria was also free but was de jure vassal to the Ottoman Empire until official independence was declared in 1908. Source: Internet

At the same time, these institutions are also consequences of political institutions - especially how de facto and de jure political power is allocated. Source: Internet

Both countries sought to claim the whole archipelago based on de jure Spanish colonial titles. Source: Internet

But, unlike all other Axis states, Finland never signed the Tripartite Pact and so Finland never was de jure an Axis nation. Source: Internet

Words in the phrase

de

Close letter words and terms

de Jongh de jour de julio de jure segregation de jure state De Kalb