The court itself, however, as the king's Council, continued to exercise a juridical as well as a deliberative and administrative function.
"The World's Greatest Books, Vol XI."
Edited by Arthur Mee and J.A. Hammerton
Looking at it from a purely juridical standpoint, we must say no; because an individual is so loosely organized as to break down mentally under a given stress, does not at all imply that a knowledge of the difference between right and wrong is excluded.
"Studies in Forensic Psychiatry"
Bernard Glueck
All this seems rather inconsistent; but it shows how difficult it is to apply these juridical ideas to our present case.
"Burke's Speech on Conciliation with America"
Edmund Burke