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

My judicial principal must needs, in his eternal battles with all instances and noble folk, have a juristic Taureador vigorous pen-harpooner; but Kolb said I was one.

From The Invisible Lodge by Jean Paul

The old tradition could not easily be reconciled to a juristic notion from outside.

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