8 The answers of those learned in the law are the opinions and views of persons authorized to determine and expound the law; for it was of old provided that certain persons should publicly interpret the laws, who were called jurisconsults, and whom the Emperor privileged to give formal answers. ❋ John Baron Moyle (1891)
When these customs change and the practice comes to indicate the opposite of what it used to, are the fatwas recorded in the books of the jurisconsults rendered thereby defunct, it becoming necessary to issue new fatwas on the basis of the new customs? ❋ Sherman A. Jackson (2010)
Three celebrated jurisconsults, Dumoulin, Lannoy, and Duaren, have written strongly against annats, which they call a real simony. ❋ Unknown (2007)
That would be great folly; as well might you wish them to have the same politeness, or to be all jurisconsults. ❋ Unknown (2007)
This seal of the devil is a small sign-manual, which, as demonological jurisconsults affirm, renders the skin insensible. ❋ Unknown (2007)
Law indeed encourages rather than extinguishes the contentions of mankind, which are the result of unbounded greed, by complicated laws, which can be turned either way; though we know that it was created by jurisconsults and pious princes for the purpose of assuaging these contentions. ❋ Unknown (2007)
The statement also demands that engineers should please stop pretending to issue fatwas, which should be left to trained clerical jurisconsults. ❋ JDsg (2005)
He quotes various jurisconsults, called demonographers, who assert that Luther was the son of a woman and a goat. ❋ Unknown (2007)
Some jurisconsults, indeed, have wisely held that the contumacious person ought not to be condemned unless the crime were clearly established; but other lawyers have been of a contrary opinion: they have boldly affirmed that the flight of the accused was a proof of the crime; that the contempt which he showed for justice, by refusing to appear, merited the same chastisement as would have followed his conviction. ❋ Unknown (2007)
So in like manner the volumes of the modern doctors of the civil law exceed those of the ancient jurisconsults, of which Tribonian compiled the digest. ❋ Unknown (2003)
And yet I am not ignorant that in divers particular sciences, as of the jurisconsults, the mathematicians, the rhetoricians, the philosophers, there are set down some small memorials of the schools, authors, and books; and so likewise some barren relations touching the invention of arts or usages. ❋ Unknown (2003)
In practice, however, judges and jurisconsults accommodated legal principles to custom and circumstance, and a great degree of flexibility in the interpretation and application of the law prevailed. ❋ Unknown (2001)
The edicts, and the innovative interpretations they embodied, were not, however, the work of the praetors themselves, but of legal scholars (jurisconsults) who advised the praetors. ❋ Unknown (2001)
When - ever Leibniz wished to give examples of disciplines containing rigorous reasoning he mentioned the works of the Roman jurisconsults as well as of the Greek mathematicians. ❋ ROBERT BLANCH (1968)
For the leading jurisconsults were closely associ - ated with Greek philosophy, especially with Stoicism, and it was they who came to see in the jus gentium, the law common to nations, an expression of the Stoic law of nature; and it was precisely through equity that the jus gentium and the law of nature touched and blended. ❋ MILTON R. KONVITZ (1968)
In 529-34 a commission of jurists, at the command of the Emperor Justinian, made collections of imperial laws (the Codex, referred to as C.), and of opinions of Republican and imperial jurisconsults (the Digest, D). ❋ GAINES POST (1968)
Indeed, some jurisconsults looked upon the ius gentium as the natural law itself insofar as it applied to man - kind. ❋ GAINES POST (1968)
