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

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

Possession or juristic possession is a conception of fact and law, existing as a pure relation of fact, independent of legal origin, but protected and maintained by law without regard to interference with personality.

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