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Jurisconsult






Jurisconsult

One well versed in jurisprudence; a jurist: one whose profession it is to give counsel on questions of law.

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Well
A hole dug in the earth in order to obtain water.

Jurisprudence
Formal study of the principles on which legal rules are based and the means by which judges guide their decision making.

Jurist
One well versed in the science of the law. The term i's usually applied to students and practitioners of law.

Profession
1) It is a public declaration respecting something. 2) It i's a state, art, or mystery; as the legal profession. 3) In the ecclesiastical law, it is the act of entering into a religious order.

Counsel
1) Advice given to another as to what he ought to do or not to do. 2) An officer of court. One who undertakes to conduct suits and actions in court. The same as counsellor. 3) Practice, Criminal law. In the oath of the grand jurors, there is a provision requiring them to keep secret " the commonwealth's counsel, their fellows, and their own." In this sense this word is synonymous with knowledge.

Law
A rule or body of rules of conduct inherent in human nature and essential to or binding upon human society. The learned profession that is mastered by graduate study in a law school and that is responsible for the judicial system.



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Juridical
Signifies used in courts of law; done in conformity to the laws of the country, and the practice which is there observed.

Juridical days
Dies juridici. Days in court on which the law is administered.

Juris Doctor
Juris Doctor refers to the law degree granted upon graduation by many university law schools with accepted high standards of admission and grading.

Juris et de jure
A phrase employed to denote conclusive presumptions of law, which cannot be rebutted by evidence. The words signify of law and from law.

Jurisdiction
Practice. A power constitutionally conferred upon a judge or magistrate, to take cognizance of, and decide causes according to law, and to carry his sentence into execution. The tract of land or district within which a judge or magistrate has jurisdiction, is called his territory, and his power in relation to his territory is called his territorial jurisdiction.

Jurisdiction clause
That part of a bill in chancery which is intended to give jnrisdiction of the suit to, the court, by a general averment that the' acts complained of are contrary to equity, and tend to the injury of the plaintiff, and that. he has no remedy, or not a complete remedy, without the assistance of a court of equity, is called the jurisdiction clause.

Jurisprudence
Formal study of the principles on which legal rules are based and the means by which judges guide their decision making.

Jurisprudential
Jurisprudential refers to the science/philosophy of law or a system of laws.

Jurist
One well versed in the science of the law. The term i's usually applied to students and practitioners of law.



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Jurats
Officers. In some English corporations, jurats are officers who have much the same power as aldermen in others.

Jure
By law; by right; in right; as, jure civilis, by the civil law; jure gentium, by the law of nations; jure representationis, by right of representation; jure uxoris, in right of a wife.

Juridical
Signifies used in courts of law; done in conformity to the laws of the country, and the practice which is there observed.

Juridical days
Dies juridici. Days in court on which the law is administered.

Juris et de jure
A phrase employed to denote conclusive presumptions of law, which cannot be rebutted by evidence. The words signify of law and from law.

Jurisconsult

Jurisdiction
Practice. A power constitutionally conferred upon a judge or magistrate, to take cognizance of, and decide causes according to law, and to carry his sentence into execution. The tract of land or district within which a judge or magistrate has jurisdiction, is called his territory, and his power in relation to his territory is called his territorial jurisdiction.

Jurisdiction clause
That part of a bill in chancery which is intended to give jnrisdiction of the suit to, the court, by a general averment that the' acts complained of are contrary to equity, and tend to the injury of the plaintiff, and that. he has no remedy, or not a complete remedy, without the assistance of a court of equity, is called the jurisdiction clause.

Jurist
One well versed in the science of the law. The term i's usually applied to students and practitioners of law.

Juror
Practice. From juro, to swear; a man who is sworn or affirmed to serve on a jury.

Jury box
A place set apart for the jury to sit in during the trial of a cause.

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