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jurist|ˈdʒʊərɪst|
[a. F. juriste, ad. med.L. jūrista f. jūs, jūr- law, right: see -ist.]
1. One who practises in law; a lawyer (obs. exc. U.S.). Also, a judge (obs.).
1481Caxton Myrr. i. v. 26 They..become aduocates and iuristes for to amasse and gadre alway money. 1489Caxton Faytes of A. i. i. 7 As wel auncyent nobles as iuristes and other. 1653Urquhart Rabelais i. xvii, The Parisians..are by nature both good jurers and good jurists. 1849Macaulay Hist. Eng. vii. II. 375 All the ablest jurists and advocates of the Tory party had, one after another, refused to comply. 1905E. B. Holt tr. H. Münsterberg's Americans iv. 88 Sixty-one of them [sc. members of the Senate] were jurists... As to the jurists, they are not men who are still active as attorneys or judges. 1931W. G. McAdoo Crowded Years iii. 41 A well-known jurist at that time was Judge Trewhitt. 1936S. P. E. Tract xlv. 188 Even more important is the divergence between the English and American uses of jurist, which is not restricted in the United States to the meaning of an expert in the science of law. It is commonly applied to any one who has obtained the qualifications required for legal practice. 1973N. W. Schur British Self-Taught 211 In America jurist is synonymous with judge. Unfortunately not all jurists (in the American sense) are jurists (in the English sense).
2. One who professes or treats of law; one versed in the science of law; a legal writer.
a1626Bacon (J.), This is not to be measured by the principles of jurists. 1765Blackstone Comm. I. vii. 254 In respect to civil suits, all the foreign jurists agree. 1844H. H. Wilson Brit. India I. 415 The doctrines of the Mohammedan jurists are somewhat at variance on this matter. 1879Froude Cæsar xiii. 177 The body of admirable laws which are known to jurists as the ‘Leges Juliæ’.
3. In the Universities: A student of law, or one who takes a degree in law.
1691A. Wood Ath. Oxon. I. 514 This person [John Jones] being entred and settled in a jurists place, he applyed himself to the study of the civil law. 1758Blackstone Study of Law in Comm. (1809) I. 15 One of the three questions to be annually discussed at the act by the jurist-inceptors shall relate to the common law. 1898Westm. Gaz. 17 Oct. 1/3 Downing provided the Senior Jurist in the years 1882, 1883, and 1884. |