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jurisprudence
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synonyms: ~green bag, ~juriconsult ???
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Definition:the study of law
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I began to think that Geilie perhaps had been right in considering this a fairly lenient sentence, given the overall state of current Scottish jurisprudence, though this didn’t alter by one whit my opinion as to the barbarity of it.
Diana Gabaldon. Outlander (1991)
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Prince Andrew said that for that work an education in jurisprudence was needed which he did not possess.
Leo Tolstoy. War and Peace: With bonus material from Give War and Peace A Chance by Andrew D. Kaufman
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the jurisprudence of every nation will show that, when law becomes a science and a system, it ceases to be justice.
Landor
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