juristic

Example Sentences

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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

Hence juristic thought addressed itself to this for a season rather than to the doctrine of consideration and the reason for non-enforcement of deliberate promises where not put in the form of bargains.

From An Introduction to the Philosophy of Law by Pound, Roscoe

The theologian hates juristic allusions,–the jurist, theological ones,–the physician, both,–the mathematician, all of them.

From Hesperus or Forty-Five Dog-Post-Days Vol. I. A Biography by Jean Paul