juristic
- adjective
- /dʒʊˈrɪstɪk/
- Formal
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jurídico
- The lawyer used her juristic knowledge to help her client understand their rights.
Examples
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The standard juristic treatises on sharia normally contain a chapter on jihad, understood in the military sense as regular warfare against infidels and apostates.
Academic text (1998) -
At the same time, as those episodes produced alternative rationales for the protection of speech, those rationales began to conflict with, as well as to reinforce, one another, and eventually came to threaten, as well as to implement, the juristic goals of the bifurcated review project.
Academic text (1996) -
According to the Islamic juristic tradition, terrorists would have no quarter.
Academic text (2002) -
However, I rejected, I'd ask you to also reject the implications of that prophecy, juristic prophecy.
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The task of exposing and combating Islamist organizations and individuals takes place in a highly political context and requires high-level lobbying and juristic skills.
Academic text (2010) -
The opinions of Justice Antonin Scalia present a bold juristic attempt to restore constitutional order to a formless void driven by the needs of the administrative state.
Academic text (1999) -
Why is it that the free lawyers, unlike the legal realists, never managed to capture the imagination of their juristic—or for that matter—nonjuristic contemporaries? #
Academic text (2016) -
Those who did not accept the church's official connection with the state were called "nonconformists," or "dissenters," and were prohibited from attending a university, holding political, juristic, military, scholastic, or ecclesiastical office, and assembling with more than five persons except in a private home.
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The sharp separation between the juristic realms of noneconomic and economic freedom had been the essence of the bifurcated review project and arguably the essence of an enlightened modernist approach to modernity.
Academic text (1996) -
Nothing in Aquinas's legal theory or in the thought of modern natural law theorists, such as myself, suggests that the injustice of a law renders it something other than a law (or "legally binding") for purposes of intrasystemic juristic analysis and argumentation.
Academic text (2008)
Synonyms
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2.5
Relating to the law, lawyers, or what the law allows
2
8.7
About the law, court cases, or how courts make decisions
Relating to law and the legal rights and duties of people
Relating to law, courts, and legal rules
How Juristic
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Etymology
The word juristic comes from the Latin root juris, which means 'law'. It shares the same root as everyday words like justice and jury, so juristic simply means 'relating to law' or legal matters.