But able jurists tell us that the "intention" of the framers of a document must be judged by the letter of the law.
Anthropologists, travelers and professional historians were joined by comparativejurists who added new matter and opened up new points of view.
This explains why the professors of political economy and the jurists complain of the impossibility of imparting the idea of the modern private property to the Irish farmers.
True, our jurists hold that the progress of legislation continually lessens all cause of complaint for women.
Medical jurists and physicians have recently agreed to accept this as a fact.
Henceforward we may use the word Urning without apology; for however the jurists and men of science repudiate Ulrichs' doctrine, they have adopted his designation for a puzzling and still unclassified member of the human race.
According to them, the penal laws of North Germany, on the occasion of their last revision, would probably have been altered, had not the jurists felt that the popular belief in the criminality of paederasts ought to be considered.
This controversy as to the respective claims of him who creates by labor and him who furnishes the materials goes back to the Roman jurists of the classical period.
This is true also of the historical juristsand of the positivists.
Historical jurists accepted the will theory and have been its leading advocates in modern times.
Roman jurists recognized that certain things were not subject to acquisition in any of the foregoing ways.
What the jurists desired was not analytical categories but a principle upon which men were to be held or not to be held upon their promises.
When the natural-law foundation of enforcing promises crumbled, the metaphysical jurists sought to provide a new one.
The most notable difference is that the metaphysical and historical jurists rely chiefly on primitive occupation of ownerless things, while the positivists have been inclined to lay stress upon creation of new things by labor.
Thus we come back to the idea of good faith, the idea of the classical Roman jurists and of the philosophicaljurists of the seventeenth century, out of which the will theory was but a metaphysical development.
What Great Britain and the United States mean by the "right of search," in its broadest sense, is called by Continental writers and jurists by no other name than the "right of visit.
The most eminent jurists who adorned this period were the Scaevolae, a family in whom the profession seems to have been hereditary.
Two jurists of this reign, Gregorianus and Hermogenianus, are particularly distinguished as authors of codes which are known by their names, and which were recognized as standard authorities in courts of justice.
Most prominent among the writings of American jurists are those of Kent, Wheaton, Story, Livingston, Lawrence, and Bouvier.
So early was the subject diligently studied, that the age preceding the first two centuries of our era was rich in jurists whose powers are celebrated in history.
Prelates and doctors of theology, jurists and statesmen examined her for a month, and one by one they were won over by her simple earnestness, her evident conviction, and the intelligence of her replies.
So unblushing was the venality of the Holy See that dialecticians and jurists of high authority seriously argued that the pope could not commit simony.
Eventually a respectable body of fifty or sixty theologians and jurists was got together, including such men as the Abbots of Fécamp, Jumièges, Ste.
Still more remarkable is the indifference of secular jurists and lawgivers during the thirteenth century, when the jurisprudence of Europe was developing and assuming definite shape.
Jurists and canonists might amuse themselves with debating it theoretically; practically it had become the veriest commonplace of the courts, both secular and ecclesiastical.
The jurists of that period very commonly assert that the power of Testation itself is of Natural Law, that it is a right conferred by the Law of Nature.
The definite theories of jurists are scarcely nearer the truth in this point than the opinions of the multitude.
In order that the universal succession may be true and perfect, the devolution must take place uno ictu, as the jurists phrase it.
They appear in the annotations of the Glossators who founded modern jurisprudence, and in the writings of the scholastic jurists who succeeded them.
All these practices are traced by the jurists of the East of Europe to a principle which is asserted to be found in the earliest Sclavonian laws, the principle that the property of families cannot be divided for a perpetuity.
The part played by jurists in French history, and the sphere of jural conceptions in French thought, have always been remarkably large.
We should add, also, that this general rule of Huberus, referred to, has not been admitted in the practice of nations, nor is it sanctioned by the most approved jurists of international law.
And no laws or usages of other nations, or reasoning of statesmen or jurists upon the relations of master and slave, can enlarge the powers of the Government, or take from the citizens the rights they have reserved.
Inferiority of jurists in fourteenth and fifteenth centuries.
The portentous ignorance of the earlier jurists in everything that could aid their textual explanations has been noticed in the first chapter of this volume.
But Savigny says with severity, that Gravina has thought so much more of his style than his subject, that all he says of the old jurists is perfectly worthless through its emptiness and want of criticism.
The jurists in the latter part of the thirteenth century are far inferior to the school of Irnerius.
Lewis, "there has been a strong tendency among jurists to deduce recognised rights and obligations from a supposed, but non-existing contract.
Did not the English Cabinet summon all the most distinguished juriststo advise them what the law of nations was?
In performing it, thesejurists also had educated themselves and developed their own intelligence.
The names of the men are almost legion, and many were of great repute in their day both as jurists and as men of affairs.
The language of the ancient jurists was to be preserved even critically, that is to say, the compilers were directed to emend apparent errors and restore what seemed "verum et optimum et quasi ab initio scriptum.
It is, however, with the Theodosian Code and certain survivals of the works of the great jurists that we have immediately to do.
The Dicta Gratiani never received such formal sanction by pope or council as the writings of Roman jurists received by being taken into Justinian's Digest.
Such a conception could not fail to spring up in the minds of Roman jurists who were educated in Stoical philosophy, the ethics of which had much to say of a common human nature.
Both jurists and philosophers, in their different spheres, carried through a more profound study, and reached a more comprehensive knowledge, of a great store of antique thought, than previous mediaeval centuries conceived of.
Therefore infanticide was disapproved by the jurists and moralists.
Roman jurists took marriage as a fact, for at Rome from the earliest times, it had been a family matter, developed in the folkways.
Some jurists of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries were led to doubt about torture, but they almost all agreed that it was necessary "in some cases.
Ethical philosophers or jurists may be able to define the "one-flesh" idea by translating it into rights and duties, but no state authority can enforce such a definition.
The jurists pronounced against the right of life and death on the part of the slave owner, but it was exercised.
The juristsearly set up the doctrine that the life of a Mohammedan slave was worth as much as that of a Mohammedan freeman, but this doctrine rarely was fulfilled in practice, never inside of the harem.
This dictum got into the Digest where the jurists of all succeeding ages could have it before their eyes.
The discovery of the New World threw the jurists of that day into bewilderment as to how rights in the American continents might be acquired and established.
I am surprised that ancient and modern jurists have not attributed to this law a greater influence on human affairs.
Footnote c: All the English and American jurists are unanimous upon this head.
Meanwhile I made an experiment with my modified and mildened system of treatment, upon the poor notary devil; the day after I tried it on the jurists who came from the college.
Naudaeus, in his 'Enumeration of the Learned Men who were supposed to be Necromancers in the Middle Ages,' has admirably remarked that this never was the case with jurists or theologians, but always with philosophers.
The decision in the Slaughter House cases was regarded by many able jurists as ignoring that provision of the XIVth amendment to the Federal Constitution forbidding any denial to any one of the equal protection of the laws.
It was this statement that captured the medieval jurists and which they made their text, but it is now regarded as incomplete and even inaccurate.
This theory of the Stoics so eloquently urged by Cicero was practically the jus naturale of the Roman jurists of classical times, though more moderately expressed by them.
It was early in the minds of many and found some expression in the writings of jurists and philosophers.
That was a question about which jurists differed, and which it was not likely that jurists would, even if they were unanimous, be suffered to decide.
Great as was the economical influence of the new jurists in the tribunals, their political influence in the various courts of the empire, from the Reichskammergericht downwards, was, if anything, greater.
The class of jurists was itself of comparatively recent growth in Central Europe, and its rapid increase in every portion of the empire dated from less than half a century back.
Preuss and constitutional jurists of all parties stood in favour of such partition.
This re-established, de facto, a military predominance of Prussia which enabled the Prussian jurists to replace military matters under the Federal Government.
German emperors and territorial lords also favoured Roman law because they saw how well suited it was to absolutism; they liked to engage jurists trained in Italy, especially if they were doctors of both canon and Roman law.
The various statements of the jurists make the matter clear.
It has ever been the method of public jurists to draw a great part of the analogies, on which they form the law of nations, from the principles of law which prevail in civil community.
But it is not alone to the action of Christian monarchs or the opinion of jurists and ministers that we must solely look, but also to the action of the church as a body during different periods of its history.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "jurists" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
