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

He contends that the prevalent juristic conception of crime rests upon ignorance of nature, brute-life, savagery, and the gradual emergence of morality.

From A Problem in Modern Ethics being an inquiry into the phenomenon of sexual inversion, addressed especially to Medical Psychologists and Jurists by Symonds, John Addington

In order to be valid, however, according to juristic theory the distinction must lie in the nature of things, and it was generalized accordingly.

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