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Jurisprudentia

A Dictionary of Law · Henry Campbell Black · 1891

A Dictionary of Law

In the civil and common law. Jurisprudence, or legal science. Jurisprudentia est divinarum atque humanarum rerum notitia, justi atque injusti scientia. "Jurisprudence" is the knowledge of things divine and human, the science of what is right and what is wrong.

Dig. 1, 1, 10, 2; Inst. 1, 1, 1.

Jurisprudentia legis communis Angliae est scientia socialis et copiosa. The jurisprudence of the common law of England is a science social and comprehensive.

7 Coke, 28a.