Legal relationship

A legal relationship, jural relationship, or legal relation is a connection between two persons or other entities that is governed by law.[1] A legal relationship may exist, for example, between two individuals or between an individual and a government. Legal relationships often imply rights and obligations. Examples of legal relationships include contracts,[2] marriage, and citizenship.[3] As with other fundamental legal concepts, many different ways of defining and classifying legal relationships have been put forward.[4]

  1. ^ Garner, Bryan, ed. (2004). Black's Law Dictionary (8th ed.). p. 2625.
  2. ^ Corbin, Arthur L. (January 1917). "Offer and Acceptance, and Some of the Resulting Legal Relations" (PDF). Yale Law Journal. 26 (3): 169–206. doi:10.2307/786706. JSTOR 786706. Retrieved 2022-06-24.
  3. ^ Maatsch, A. (2011). Ethnic Citizenship Regimes: Europeanization, Post-war Migration and Redressing Past Wrongs. Springer. p. 3. ISBN 9780230307391. Defined narrowly, citizenship concerns the legal relation between an individual and a state, enshrined in domestic law.
  4. ^ Kocourek, Albert (April 1920). "Various Definitions of Jural Relation". Columbia Law Review. 20 (4): 394–412. doi:10.2307/1111982. JSTOR 1111982. An inspection of the literature, and it is abundant, which attempts in one way and another to provide an understandable definition of jural relation, is likely to evoke the opinion expressed by Jhering in a similar connection-that the pursuit is a trading of silver dollars for paper dollars.