What does jurist mean?

Definitions for jurist
ˈdʒʊər ɪstju·rist

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. jurist, legal expertnoun

    a legal scholar versed in civil law or the law of nations

  2. judge, justice, juristnoun

    a public official authorized to decide questions brought before a court of justice

Wiktionary

  1. juristnoun

    a judge

  2. juristnoun

    an expert in law or jurisprudence

Wikipedia

  1. 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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  1. 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

  1. 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

  2. Etymology: [F. juriste, LL. jurista, fr. L. jus, juris, right, law. See Just, a.]

Wikidata

  1. 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

  1. 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

  1. 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

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of jurist in Chaldean Numerology is: 8

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of jurist in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7

Examples of jurist in a Sentence

  1. Mitch McConnell:

    President Trump could not have made a better decision. Judge Amy Coney Barrett is an exceptionally impressive jurist and an exceedingly well-qualified nominee to the Supreme Court of the United States, first, Judge Barrett built a reputation as a brilliant scholar at the forefront of the legal academy. Then she answered the call to public service. For three years on the Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, she has demonstrated exactly the independence, impartiality, and fidelity to our laws and Constitution that Americans need and deserve on their highest Court.

  2. Vice President Joe Biden:

    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.

  3. James Clyburn:

    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.

  4. Joe Manchin:

    Throughout Judge Gorsuch’s career, he has come to his legal rulings objectively, through the letter of the law rather than through his own opinion, i hold no illusions that I will agree with every decision Judge Gorsuch may issue in the future, but I have not found any reasons why this jurist should not be a Supreme Court Justice.

  5. Ilhan Omar:

    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.

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