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UK
/dʒˈɔːɹɪst/
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[ US /ˈdʒʊɹəst, ˈdʒʊɹɪst/ ]
[ US /ˈdʒʊɹəst, ˈdʒʊɹɪst/ ]
NOUN
- a legal scholar versed in civil law or the law of nations
- a public official authorized to decide questions brought before a court of justice
How To Use jurist In A Sentence
- Here the mufti, or jurisconsult, appears to play a role remarkably similar to that of the roman jurist or contemporary European law professor (in providing Gutachten or opinions to courts).
- Interestingly, some jurists even asserted that judges who rely on a coerced confession in a criminal conviction are to be held liable for the wrongful conviction.
- In this context, jurists and scholars were accorded high social rank.
- In Arabian-Islamic cultural history, Tabari is a celebrated explainer of the Koran, expert of Hadith, jurist of Islamic law and historian.
- In that respect, he stands in a different juristic position, at least for international law purposes, than if the finding of him being a genuine refugee had not been made.
- Darrow, on the other hand, was at times condescending and contemptuous in his treatment of witnesses, jurists, opposing lawyers and even the judge.
- His grandfather had served as governor of New Jersey, his father was a prominent jurist and New York assemblyman, and he quickly became a leading lawyer and socialite.
- Secondly, the organic coalescence of the juristic attribute and the political attribute of constitution prejudication makes democracy tend towards the essential democracy from the formal democracy.
- 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.
- Against his fellow Mâlikîs, whom he casts as sloppy in their juristic thinking, al-Qarâfî insisted that these phrases had absolutely no legal effect whatsoever today. Sherman A. Jackson: Sharia in America: How Religious Laws Change