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

New categories were added in successive strata, as it were, and juristic science sought afterward to reduce them to system and logical consistency.

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

The Chinese have had notions of authority and control radically different from those developed in the West; a purely juristic interpretation of the various Chinese politics would simply scrape the lacquer off the screen.

From The Political Doctrines of Sun Yat-sen: An Exposition of the San Min Chu I by Linebarger, Paul Myron Anthony