Sample sentences for JURISPRUDENCE

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Definition

the branch of philosophy concerned with the law

or:

a collection of laws

It is an important decision in the Supreme Court's affirmative action jurisprudence.

jurisprudence = interpretations of the law

No question in jurisprudence is as muddled as that of privacy.
Sheldon Richman -- Dissolving the Inkblot: Privacy as Property Right -- http://www.cato.org/pubs/policy_report/richman.html (retrieved 06/28/06)
These attempts to join a progressive constitutional jurisprudence with democratic politics embody a distressingly thin idea of "democracy."
Michael S. Greve -- How to Think about Constitutional Change, Part II -- http://www.aei.org/publications/filter.all,pubID.22622/pub_detail.asp (retrieved 06/29/06)
The great problem for American jurisprudence is to allow freedom for its citizens while enforcing order and promoting the common good.
Prince Andrew said that for that work an education in jurisprudence was needed which he did not possess.
Tolstoy, Leo -- War and Peace
This shows it is improper to use a technical interpretation from the jurisprudence of only one State.
Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, & John Jay -- The Federalist Papers — Modern English Edition 2
I believe that this case must be unique in Swedish jurisprudence.
Stieg Larsson -- The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest
There were a lot of things about the trial that were wrong; but the practice of jurisprudence was much laxer then.
Margaret Atwood -- Alias Grace
But the latter went on without pity:— " 'Seek whom the crime will profit,' says an axiom of jurisprudence."
Alexandre Dumas -- The Count of Monte Cristo
"Does medical jurisprudence provide nothing against these infringements?" said Mr. Hackbutt, with a disinterested desire to offer his lights.
George Eliot -- Middlemarch
Jessica picked up Jurisprudence and pulled it out to its full length.
Scott Westerfeld -- The Secret Hour
STUDENT I cannot reconcile myself to Jurisprudence.
Goethe (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe) -- Faust
And jurisprudence, the making and executing of laws ?
Thomas Mann -- The Magic Mountain
Prince Andrew said that for that work an education in jurisprudence was needed which he did not possess.
Leo Tolstoy -- War and Peace
This point has been established by discussion in the law-courts, and may be said to belong more properly to jurisprudence.
Alexis de Toqueville -- Democracy In America, Volume 1
Finality, not fairness, had become the new priority in death penalty jurisprudence.
Bryan Stevenson -- Just Mercy
So exotic jurisprudence loses its brightest jewel.... so what do I care?
Robert A. Heinlein -- Tunnel In the Sky
Mitya forgot his surname though he knew him, had seen him: he was the "investigating lawyer," from the "school of jurisprudence," who had only lately come to the town.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky -- The Brothers Karamazov
Such critics also pointed out that, thanks to the commercialization of Everest, the once hallowed peak has now even been dragged into the swamp of American jurisprudence.
Jon Krakauer -- Into Thin Air
It is true that the separation of the equity from the legal jurisdiction is peculiar to the English system of jurisprudence: which is the model that has been followed in several of the States.
Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, & John Jay -- The Federalist Papers

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