What does Jurist mean?
Definitions for Jurist
ˈdʒʊər ɪstju·rist
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Princeton's WordNet
jurist, legal expertnoun
a legal scholar versed in civil law or the law of nations
judge, justice, juristnoun
a public official authorized to decide questions brought before a court of justice
Wiktionary
juristnoun
a judge
juristnoun
an expert in law or jurisprudence
Wikipedia
Jurist
A jurist is a person with expert knowledge of law; someone who analyses and comments on law. This person is usually a specialist legal scholar, mostly (but not always) with a formal qualification in law and often a legal practitioner. In the United Kingdom the term "jurist" is mostly used for legal academics, while in the United States the term may also be applied to a judge. With reference to Roman law, a "jurist" (in English) is a jurisconsult (iurisconsultus).The English term jurist is to be distinguished from similar terms in other European languages, where it may be synonymous with legal professional, meaning anyone with a professional law degree that qualifies for admission to the legal profession, including such positions as judge or attorney. In Germany, Scandinavia and a number of other countries jurist denotes someone with a professional law degree, and it may be a protected title, for example in Norway. Thus the term can be applied to attorneys, judges and academics, provided that they hold a qualifying professional law degree. In Germany the term "full jurist" is sometimes used informally to denote someone who has completed the two state examinations in law that qualify for practising law, to distinguish from someone who may have only the first state examination or some other form of legal qualification that doesn't qualify for practising law.
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jurist
A jurist is a legal scholar, expert, or professional who studies, teaches, practices, or conducts research in law. This term generally refers to individuals who hold a law degree and is knowledgeable about the law, legal theories, processes, and systems. Jurists may include judges, attorneys, law professors, legal consultants, and others who are involved in the legal profession on a regular basis.
Webster Dictionary
Juristadjective
one who professes the science of law; one versed in the law, especially in the civil law; a writer on civil and international law
Etymology: [F. juriste, LL. jurista, fr. L. jus, juris, right, law. See Just, a.]
Wikidata
Jurist
A jurist or jurisconsult is a professional who studies, develops, applies, or otherwise deals with the law. The term is widely used in American and Canadian English, but in the United Kingdom and many Commonwealth countries it has only historical and specialist usage. In most of continental Europe any person who possesses a degree in law and works professionally with the law is referred to with a word resembling jurist.
Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
Jurist
jōō′rist, n. one who is versed in the science of law, esp. Roman or civil law: a civilian.—adjs. Jurist′ic, -al.—adv. Jurist′ically. [Fr. juriste.]
Surnames Frequency by Census Records
JURIST
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Jurist is ranked #112568 in terms of the most common surnames in America.
The Jurist surname appeared 156 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Jurist.
91.6% or 143 total occurrences were White.
3.8% or 6 total occurrences were Black.
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Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of Jurist in Chaldean Numerology is: 8
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of Jurist in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7
Examples of Jurist in a Sentence
The Senate gets to have a say, and so in order to get this done, the President is not going to be able to go out -- nor would it be his instinct anyway -- to pick the most liberal jurist in the nation and put them on the court. There are plenty of judges on high courts already who have had unanimous support of the Republicans.
We have two Republican senators from South Carolina, both of them know Michelle very well and both of them have spoken highly of her and the Republicans all over this state because she's an outstanding jurist.
While the commission's report is of no immediate legal effect, it may, nonetheless, pave the way for later investigations and potentially prosecutions of Israeli and Palestinian military personnel by the International Criminal Court by providing the ICC needed political cover, the fact that the commission was headed by Mary McGowan Davis, an esteemed American jurist, makes its impact all the greater, especially in the United States, where findings by U.N. bodies are regularly derided.
Let me be clear, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas is a corrupt jurist and should have no place on our highest court, clarence Thomas for the past three decades worked in tandem with his wife from the bench, to decide cases that were in lockstep with his wife's political pursuits.
For virtually his entire adult life, including a quarter century on the U.S. Supreme Court, Stephen Breyer has served his country with the highest possible distinction. He is, and always has been, a model jurist.
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