de jure / de facto

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De jure (in the classical Latin form de iure ) is a Latin expression for "according to the law, legally considered (according to current law), legal, official, official";
de facto is the Latin expression for "according to facts, according to the state of affairs, in practice, actually" (cf. in praxi ), also referred to as factual ("in reality").

With de facto , a circumstance is named that is considered to be widespread and generally recognized, even if it is not formally defined as de jure by appropriate institutions : de jure describes a legal target situation , de facto an actual current situation .

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These two terms form an antonymic pair of terms, that is, if only one of the two terms is used in a sentence, the statement has a "yes-but" structure and indicates the (sometimes unspoken) existence of the other. As a pair of terms, the two formulas are often used to describe legal, here above all international law , and political science issues. For example, a government can be in office de jure , i.e. it was set up according to current law. A de facto government or a de facto regime, on the other hand, has no legal recognition. For example, Somaliland is a de facto , but not de jure recognized state . In contrast, Somalia is a de jure recognized, de facto non-existent state.

Outside of legal parlance, the wording is de facto used in the sense of “in reality” in southern German, German-Swiss and Austrian regions by broader sections of the population.

In addition, the terms de jure and de facto are mainly used in English in connection with technical norms and standards . The English expression de jure standard corresponds to the term “technical standard” in German ; the English de facto standard is usually translated as " industry standard ".

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Web links

Wiktionary: de jure  - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations
Wiktionary: de facto  - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations

Individual evidence

  1. Duden online | de jure | Spelling, meaning, definition, synonyms, origin. Bibliographisches Institut GmbH, 2013, accessed on March 6, 2014 .
  2. a b Duden online | de facto | Spelling, meaning, definition, synonyms, origin. Bibliographisches Institut GmbH, 2013, accessed on March 6, 2014 .
  3. ^ What's The Difference Between De Jure And De Facto Standards? Penton Electronics Group, accessed March 6, 2014 .