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Jurist
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A judge or legal scholar; an individual who is versed or skilled in law.

The term jurist is ordinarily applied to individuals who have gained respect and recognition by their writings on legal topics.


jurist n. although it means any attorney or legal scholar, jurist popularly refers to a judge.


JURIST. One well versed in the science of the law. The term is usually applied to students and practitioners of law.


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We also note the distinction between thought-based knowledge and transmitted or received knowledge reflected in the twin juristic and hadith-related expressions of 'ilm al-diraya, that is, knowledge based on understanding, and 'ilm al-Tiwaya, that is, report-based and transmitted knowledge.
The famous fourteenth-century Granadan jurisconsult, al-Shatibi--unquestionably one of the most brilliant minds in Islamic legal history--cautioned that juristic incompetence could impose no difficulty upon a people harsher than to require them to repudiate their sound local customs and conventional usage.
On the significance of the sang royal in Bourbon-absolutist ideology, see Ralph Giesey, The Juristic Basis of Dynastic Right to the French Throne (Philadelphia, 1961).
 
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