juristic
Americanadjective
adjective
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of or relating to jurists
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of, relating to, or characteristic of the study of law or the legal profession
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Origin of juristic
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Before that they always preferred to remain scholarly and juristic.
From Economist ● Nov. 16, 2017
Other secondary sources of Islamic law are juristic preference, public interest and custom.
From Salon ● Feb. 26, 2011
The men were all of Big Business color, but of technical shade: practical, juristic, masters of concrete planning rather than grandiose theorizing.
From Time Magazine Archive
Later, when juristic study seeks to put the materials of the law in order, a third element develops, which may be called legal conceptions.
From An Introduction to the Philosophy of Law by Roscoe Pound
Possession or juristic possession is a conception of fact and law, existing as a pure relation of fact, independent of legal origin, but protected and maintained by law without regard to interference with personality.
From An Introduction to the Philosophy of Law by Roscoe Pound
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