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Example sentences for "jurisprudence"

Lexicographically close words:
jurisconsult; jurisconsults; jurisdiction; jurisdictional; jurisdictions; jurist; juristic; jurists; jurney; juro
  1. The complicated principles of jurisprudence of the Roman constitution became, in Rome, a necessary part of a liberal education.

  2. The philosophy of jurisprudence has been especially promoted by his great work on natural and national law, which laid the foundation of a new science.

  3. This emperor undertook the task of reducing to order and system the great confusion and perplexity in which the whole subject of Roman jurisprudence was involved.

  4. This is the most important legislative monument of the age, and forms a sort of Spanish common law, which, with the decisions under it, has been the basis of Spanish jurisprudence ever since.

  5. The framework of their jurisprudence the Romans derived from Athens, but the complete structure was built up by their own hands.

  6. The system of jurisprudence established by Justinian remained in force in the eastern empire until the taking of Constantinople, 1453 A.

  7. The question is whether in the eye of equitable jurisprudence the bequest be a charity at all.

  8. Jurisprudence was improved, and numerous grievances were redressed.

  9. Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, Corpus Christi Professor of Jurisprudence in the University of Oxford.

  10. Corpus Christi Professor of Jurisprudence in the University of Oxford; late Fellow of Trinity College, Camb.

  11. Supreme Court the supervision and control of the most valuable and hitherto the most cherished portion of the legislation and jurisprudence of the State governments.

  12. It is of the utmost importance to realise that Divorce Law Reform is needed to bring our jurisprudence up to the level of the modern civilised State.

  13. This was an established maxim of our jurisprudence even in the time of Edward the Fourth.

  14. Imagine what the state of our own country would be, if a jurisprudence were on a sudden introduced among us, which should be to us what our jurisprudence was to our Asiatic subjects.

  15. Held chairs of law and jurisprudence in Berlin and other cities, and wrote many books.

  16. A distinguished publicist and statesman; born in Breslau, died at Weinhaus, near Vienna; studied Jurisprudence in Konigsberg.

  17. The jurisprudence of Rome was, and has ever been, an unfailing fountain, whence the English people have drawn copious draughts of wisdom and knowledge.

  18. Several interesting questions in the theory of jurisprudence are incidentally discussed in this chapter, such as that of the due limits of judicial discretion.

  19. His writings on Roman jurisprudence are numerous, but not very highly esteemed.

  20. In the fourteenth century this famous university fell rather into decline; the jealousy of neighbouring states subjected its graduates to some disadvantage; and while the study of jurisprudence was less efficacious, it was more diffused.

  21. According to the primary and established sense of the word, especially on the Continent, jurisprudence is the science of the Roman law, and is seldom applied to any other positive system, but least of all to the law of nature.

  22. Hence, though the learned style of jurisprudence began with Alciat, we shall call it Cujacian.

  23. His love of paradox is hardly a greater fault than the perpetual carping at his own master Cujacius, as if he thought the reform of jurisprudence should have been reserved for himself.

  24. Admiralty jurisprudence has cognizance of maritime contracts and torts, collisions at sea, cases of prize in war, etc.

  25. The system of jurisprudence of admiralty courts.

  26. There is room for a volume on the jurisprudence of childhood and youth, and every page would be of intensest interest and of value in the history of the evolution of the ideas of justice in the human race.

  27. Justice Chase held that English common law was not a part of the jurisprudence of the United States as a Nation.

  28. So far back as any knowledge of our jurisprudence is possessed, the uniform practice of this country [Virginia] has been, to permit any individual .

  29. O my lord,' answered she, 'I am versed in syntax and poetry and jurisprudence and exegesis and lexicography and music and the knowledge of the Divine ordinances and in arithmetic and geodesy and the fables of the ancients.

  30. The idea is not new in the System of jurisprudence of the country;--Publicans have long been under regulations prescribed by Magistrates; Pawnbrokers also have been of late years regulated to a certain extent by Statute.

  31. For some centuries before these controversies rose into overwhelming importance, all the intellectual activity of the Western Romans had been expended on jurisprudence exclusively.

  32. Christianity, in its ready hospitality for all the truth and good which it encounters, accepted Roman jurisprudence and gave to it a new lease of life.

  33. Other nations, it is true, had codes of law, like the Institutes of Manu in India, or the jurisprudence of Solon and the enactments of Lycurgus.

  34. In 1567 he succeeded Cujas in the chair of jurisprudence at Bourges.

  35. The arts of the barrister were not to his taste; he turned to the study of jurisprudence and literature, and in 1546 was appointed lecturer in Roman Law at the university of Paris.

  36. Nottingham is greatly lauded by Blackstone and other writers on jurisprudence as a "consummate lawyer," and as the father of the modern English equity system.

  37. Considering the systematic form which equity jurisprudence had assumed under his two immediate predecessors, Jeffreys must have been very poorly furnished for presiding in chancery.

  38. Nothing could well seem more submissive or more orthodox, and under any other system of jurisprudence conviction might well appear impossible.

  39. In jurisprudence this was a particularly flourishing period, for juridical studies were more in keeping with the thought and propaganda in Europe at that time.

  40. In private law, especially as regards the family, the long struggle of the Roman principles to gain a predominant place in Castilian jurisprudence ended in triumph.

  41. In jurisprudence and politics Spanish writers gained an indisputable title to originality of thought, of positive influence on the civilization of other countries.

  42. My amendment reaches the large amount of works concerning science and literature and jurisprudence in ancient and in foreign languages; and why should these be subjected to a duty?

  43. We have an interest, jurisprudence has an interest, justice has an interest, the nation has an interest, in maintaining the character of that tribunal against all unjust reproach.

  44. I know the learning, wisdom, and ability of its judgments, and am proud that there are such pages in the jurisprudence of my country.

  45. The judgment of Lord Mansfield constitutes a landmark of law, to be remembered proudly, when all his contributions to commercial law and general jurisprudence are forgotten.

  46. If the prepossessions of the Senator were more evenly balanced, I should not doubt his judgment on this point, which in the light of jurisprudence is so clear.

  47. The clergy, whose dominion was an intellectual one, never approved of a system of jurisprudence which tended so much to bring all things under the rule of the strongest arm.


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