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Jurisprudence   /dʒˌʊrəsprˈudəns/   Listen
Jurisprudence

noun
1.
The branch of philosophy concerned with the law and the principles that lead courts to make the decisions they do.  Synonyms: law, legal philosophy.
2.
The collection of rules imposed by authority.  Synonym: law.  "The great problem for jurisprudence to allow freedom while enforcing order"






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"Jurisprudence" Quotes from Famous Books



... And over hearts held such dominion, That when her father, sick in bed, Or busy, sent her, in his stead, To lecture on the Code Justinian, She had a curtain drawn before her, Lest, if her charms were seen, the students Should let their young eyes wander o'er her, And quite forget their jurisprudence. Just so it is with Truth, when seen, Too dazzling far,—'tis from behind A light, thin allegoric screen, She thus can ...
— The Complete Poems of Sir Thomas Moore • Thomas Moore et al

... they have recouped the value of their crops; then let the sheep return to their owners." Accordingly David reversed his own decision and caused execute that of Solomon; yet was David no oppressor; but Solomon's judgment was the juster and he showed himself therein better versed in jurisprudence and Holy Law.[FN377] When the Tither heard the old man's speech, he felt ruthful and said to him, "O Shaykh, I make thee a gift of that which is due from thee, and do thou cleave to me and leave me not, so haply I may get of thee gain which shall do away ...
— Supplemental Nights, Volume 1 • Richard F. Burton

... kingdom. Gentle as gigantic, indomitable in war, invading but not destroying, their greatest monarch, Gondebaud, who could exterminate his rival brothers, and enact a beneficient code of laws which forms the basis of the Gallic jurisprudence, was their protagonist and prototype. Beside his figure, looming in the mists of history, is Clothilde, his niece, the proselyting Christian queen, who fled in her ox cart from Geneva to the arms of Clovis the Merovingian, first king of France. Enthroned at Lyons, Gondebaud ...
— The Counts of Gruyere • Mrs. Reginald de Koven

... be thought that a single case, although the most celebrated in the annals of American jurisprudence, was Roswell Field's sole claim to the title of leader of the Missouri bar during his lifetime. The records of the Superior Court of that state bear interesting and convincing testimony to the exceptional brilliancy of Eugene ...
— Eugene Field, A Study In Heredity And Contradictions - Vol. I • Slason Thompson

... a very intelligent and learned priest. He was superior of a community, and he directed, here in Paris, the only review which ever was really mystical. He was a theologian much consulted, a recognized master of divine jurisprudence; then he had distressing quarrels with the papal Curia at Rome and with the Cardinal-Archbishop of Paris. His exorcisms and his battles against the incubi, especially in the ...
— La-bas • J. K. Huysmans


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