Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Versed in jurisprudence.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Of, pertaining to, or relating to jurisprudence.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Of or pertaining to jurisprudence.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Of or pertaining to
jurisprudence
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective relating to the science or philosophy of law or a system of laws
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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These include shaping the long-term jurisprudential reputations of Roberts and his colleagues.
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These include shaping the long-term jurisprudential reputations of Roberts and his colleagues.
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Anon321: “But isn’t the decision to defer to other constitutional actors a decision based on beliefs and ideology — albeit of the sort that is usually called jurisprudential ideology rather than political ideology?”
The Volokh Conspiracy » More on Legal Ambiguity and the Role of the Supreme Court: 2009
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But isn’t the decision to defer to other constitutional actors a decision based on beliefs and ideology — albeit of the sort that is usually called jurisprudential ideology rather than political ideology?
The Volokh Conspiracy » More on Legal Ambiguity and the Role of the Supreme Court: 2009
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I almost think she would be a liberal judge I could live with, admire even, aside from those concerns, since she seems to hew pretty closely to precedent in most cases otherwise, the kind of jurisprudential philosophy I enjoy.
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Fresh from their many successes, like a Forbes article/puff piece in February, routing the genteel legislative effort in the Hawaii Senate to just ask the FDA Commissioner to rescind the approval for their product in US markets, etc., perhaps Ajinomoto is about to shoot itself in the foot, or more apropos: commit a kind of jurisprudential hari kiri in its efforts to silence ASDA's publicity.
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Code like a kind of jurisprudential minefield: Crimes like "false statements" (a felony, up to five years), "obstructing the mails" (five years), or "false pretenses on the high seas" (also five years).
Archive 2007-10-14 2007
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It is a jurisprudential patrimony that the university not only claims to believe, it claims both to believe that it is true and that it knows that it is true.
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Next to him, Harriet Miers is a jurisprudential giant.
Law 2010
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With the fascist court having grossly overreached in this jurisprudential wet dream of theirs, a backlash is building that will redound against the power of corporations and that has the potential to destroy some of them outright.
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