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  • noun Plural form of jurisconsult.

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Examples

  • 8 The answers of those learned in the law are the opinions and views of persons authorized to determine and expound the law; for it was of old provided that certain persons should publicly interpret the laws, who were called jurisconsults, and whom the Emperor privileged to give formal answers.

    The Institutes of Justinian John Baron Moyle 1891

  • When these customs change and the practice comes to indicate the opposite of what it used to, are the fatwas recorded in the books of the jurisconsults rendered thereby defunct, it becoming necessary to issue new fatwas on the basis of the new customs?

    Sherman A. Jackson: Sharia in America: How Religious Laws Change Sherman A. Jackson 2010

  • When these customs change and the practice comes to indicate the opposite of what it used to, are the fatwas recorded in the books of the jurisconsults rendered thereby defunct, it becoming necessary to issue new fatwas on the basis of the new customs?

    Sherman A. Jackson: Sharia in America: How Religious Laws Change Sherman A. Jackson 2010

  • When these customs change and the practice comes to indicate the opposite of what it used to, are the fatwas recorded in the books of the jurisconsults rendered thereby defunct, it becoming necessary to issue new fatwas on the basis of the new customs?

    Sherman A. Jackson: Sharia in America: How Religious Laws Change Sherman A. Jackson 2010

  • Three celebrated jurisconsults, Dumoulin, Lannoy, and Duaren, have written strongly against annats, which they call a real simony.

    A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

  • That would be great folly; as well might you wish them to have the same politeness, or to be all jurisconsults.

    A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

  • This seal of the devil is a small sign-manual, which, as demonological jurisconsults affirm, renders the skin insensible.

    A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

  • Law indeed encourages rather than extinguishes the contentions of mankind, which are the result of unbounded greed, by complicated laws, which can be turned either way; though we know that it was created by jurisconsults and pious princes for the purpose of assuaging these contentions.

    The Love of Books : The Philobiblon of Richard de Bury 2007

  • He quotes various jurisconsults, called demonographers, who assert that Luther was the son of a woman and a goat.

    A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

  • Some jurisconsults, indeed, have wisely held that the contumacious person ought not to be condemned unless the crime were clearly established; but other lawyers have been of a contrary opinion: they have boldly affirmed that the flight of the accused was a proof of the crime; that the contempt which he showed for justice, by refusing to appear, merited the same chastisement as would have followed his conviction.

    A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

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