zygnomic

English

Etymology

Coined by Robert L. Kocourek as zyg- +‎ -nomic

Adjective

zygnomic (comparative more zygnomic, superlative most zygnomic)

1. (law) Directly involved or related.
   • 1932, Illinois Law Review - Volume 26, page 860:

     A mesonomic relation is that kind of legal relation which in a jural series may result in the creation, alteration, or destruction of a zygnomic relation.

   • 1939, Roscoe Pound, Nathan Isaacs, William Waite Beardsley, The National Law Library: Property, page 22:

     In Kocourek's terminology, therefore, the offer is the exercise of a "mesonomic" power — not totally outside the law ("anomic") nor already coercive ("zygnomic"), but potentially capable of becoming coercive.

   • 1971, Revista del Colegio de Abogados de Puerto Rico, page 235:

     Legally this power was recognized (was made a zygnomic power) (') by revolutionary governments to be exercised against their enemies.

   • 2020, Sovereignty Education and Defense Ministry (SEDM), Legal Fictions, Form #09.071, page 50:

     . In Professor Kocourek's newer terminology the claim descends from the zygnomic to the mesonomic plane on the running of the Statute.