Crossword clues for juristic
juristic
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Juristic \Ju*ris"tic\, Juristical \Ju*ris"tic*al\, a.
Of or pertaining to a jurist, to the legal profession, or to
jurisprudence. [R.] ``Juristic ancestry.''
--Lowell.
Wiktionary
a. of or pertaining to a jurist or juristics
WordNet
adj. of or relating to law or to legal rights and obligations [syn: jural]
Usage examples of "juristic".
It is vain to insist with such stubbornness as that of the classic school of criminology on juristic formulas by which the distinction between illegal appropriation and theft, between fraud and other forms of crime against property, and so forth, is determined, when this method does not give to society one single word which would throw light upon the reasons that make a man a criminal and upon the efficacious remedy by which society could protect itself against criminality.
We need not go through so hard a course of study merely for the purpose of walking over the razor edge of juristic definitions and to find out, for instance, that from the time Romagnosi made a distinction between incompleted and attempted crime rivers of ink have been spilled in the attempt to find the distinguishing elements of these two degrees of crime.
The method which we, on the other hand, have inaugurated is the following: Before we study crime from the point of view of a juristic phenomenon, we must study the causes to which the annual recurrence of crimes in all countries is due.
They have forgotten the personality of the criminal and occupied themselves exclusively with crime as an abstract juristic phenomenon.
The only idea intelligible to the majority was a juristic and political notion, viz.