jurisprudence
You want a word that’s a whole mouthful? Try jurisprudence, the study and philosophy of law. You want to study jurisprudence? Get ready for law school, where you’ll find even longer, more troubling words.
The Latin-based word jurisprudence is made up of two parts, juris "of law" and prudence which goes back to mean "knowledge." If you study law, you study jurisprudence. You can modify it to show a specific type of law, so you will find terms such as medical, human rights, Islamic or American jurisprudence. Sometimes the word is used as a collective to mean the legal world. This is a new issue that jurisprudence will have to deal with.
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the branch of philosophy concerned with the law and the principles that lead courts to make the decisions they dosynonyms: law, legal philosophytypes:contract lawthat branch of jurisprudence that studies the rights and obligations of parties entering into contractscorporation lawthat branch of jurisprudence that studies the laws governing corporationsmatrimonial lawthat branch of jurisprudence that studies the laws governing matrimonypatent lawthat branch of jurisprudence that studies the laws governing patentstype of:philosophythe rational investigation of questions about existence and knowledge and ethics
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the collection of rules imposed by authority“the great problem for jurisprudence to allow freedom while enforcing order”synonyms: lawtypes:administrative lawthe body of rules and regulations and orders and decisions created by administrative agencies of governmentcivil lawthe body of laws established by a state or nation for its own regulationcase law, common law, precedenta system of jurisprudence based on judicial precedents rather than statutory lawslaw of the landa phrase used in the Magna Carta to refer to the then established law of the kingdom (as distinct from Roman or civil law); today it refers to fundamental principles of justice commensurate with due processmartial lawthe body of law imposed by the military over civilian affairs (usually in time of war or civil crisis); overrides civil lawcommercial law, law merchant, mercantile lawthe body of rules applied to commercial transactions; derived from the practices of traders rather than from jurisprudencemilitary lawthe body of laws and rules of conduct administered by military courts for the discipline, trial, and punishment of military personnelLaw of Moses, Mosaic lawthe laws (beginning with the Ten Commandments) that God gave to the Israelites through Moses; it includes many rules of religious observance given in the first five books of the Old Testament (in Judaism these books are called the Torah)Islamic law, sharia, sharia law, shariah, shariah lawthe code of law derived from the Quran and from the teachings and example of Mohammedstatutory lawthe body of laws created by legislative statutessecurities lawthe body of laws governing the issuance and selling of securitiestax lawthe body of laws governing taxationcase law, common law, precedent(civil law) a law established by following earlier judicial decisionsadmiralty law, marine law, maritime lawthe branch of international law that deals with territorial and international waters or with shipping or with ocean fishery etc.type of:accumulation, aggregation, assemblage, collectionseveral things grouped together or considered as a whole
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Vocabulary lists containing jurisprudence
Practice these words that contain the Latin roots jud, jur, and jus, meaning "law" or "justice."
Abraham Lincoln took the oath of office as the 16th President of the United States on March 4, 1861. Since his election the previous November Southern states had met and declared their intent to secede. In his inaugural address Lincoln made it clear that he did not consider the Southern states to be enemies but that it was his duty to protect the Union, by force if necessary.