What does the word jurisprudence mean?

    Part of speech: noun

  • A system of laws.

Usage examples for jurisprudence

  1. I also incorporated a provision into the Civil Practice Act respecting suits for mining claims, which was the foundation of the jurisprudence respecting mines in the country. – Personal Reminiscences of Early Days in California with Other Sketches; To Which Is Added the Story of His Attempted Assassination by a Former Associate on the Supreme Bench of the State by Stephen Field; George C. Gorham
  2. 51- 53. See Austin's Jurisprudence, i. – Rousseau Volumes I. and II. by John Morley
  3. The effect of this evidence, says the author just before cited, derived from comparative jurisprudence, is to establish that view of the primeval condition of the human race which is known as the " Patriarchal Theory." – Church and State as Seen in the Formation of Christendom by T. W. Allies
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