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n. the entire body of laws of a country or of a particular court
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The legal term Corpus Juris means "body of law".
It was originally used by the Romans for several of their collections of all the laws in a certain field—see Corpus Juris Civilis—and was later adopted by medieval jurists in assembling the Corpus Juris Canonici.
Later the term was used for comprehensive collections of laws in the US, as in Corpus Juris Secundum. The term is commonly used to refer to the entire body of law of a country, jurisdiction, or court, such as "the corpus juris of the Supreme Court of the United States."
The phrase has been used in the European Union to describe the possibility of a European Legal Area, a European Public Prosecutor and a European Criminal Code. Eurosceptics have attacked the plans which they see as a threat to the criminal law traditions of individual member states, such as jury trials by independent juries, habeas corpus, and prohibitions against double jeopardy.
Usage examples of "corpus juris".
Spangenberg, in his Introduction to the Study of the Corpus Juris Civilis Hanover, 1817, 1 vol.
Two collegiate-looking dudes are arguing intensely in German: The translation stream in his glasses tell him they're arguing over whether the Turing Test is a Jim Crow law that violates European corpus juris standards on human rights.
Two collegiate-looking dudes are arguing intensely in German: the translation stream in his glasses tell him they're arguing over whether the Turing Test is a Jim Crow law that violates European corpus juris standards on human rights.
Surely there was nothing in the corpus juris of the library worthy of a laugh, or even a tiny chuckle.
Though reading was accomplished with infinitely greater speed and near instantaneous comprehension of syntax, I had to force myself to be interested in such things as the history of Roman Law from ancient times, and the great code of the Emperor Justinian, called the Corpus Juris Civilis, which my Master thought to be one of the finest codes of law ever written.
But whether he borrowed it from the ecclesiastical courts, or went directly to the fountain- head, certain it is that Glanvill makes use of the classification and technical language of the Corpus Juris throughout his tenth book.
Hes much too smooth and sure a writer to make any such adolescent errors, as those who have read Lord Randy, My Son and The Color of Hate and The Song of Corpus Juris and other brilliant suspense novels can testify.