de jure

This would give de jure legitimacy—at least according to Moscow—to any future annexation of Crimea.

Thus, we turn the de facto situation into a de jure one, and ensure freedom of movement.

Pakistan recognizes the international border and expects a de jure resolution of the issue.

A UK which is de jure separated is not the UK for Australian constitutional purposes.

It is immoral to deny Palestinian citizens of the State of Israel full and equal rights de facto and not only de jure.

Under the Decree I was, de jure, the eldest male after the King; it needed only his act to make me his successor.

Mare Liberum, seu de jure quod Batavis competit ad Indica commercia.

Felda, John de, his notes against Grotius's treatise De jure belli et pacis, 111.

Most of these slaves were west of the river, few being in the Province of Upper Canada de jure.

At that remote period Texas belonged, if not de facto, still de jure, to Mexico.