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JURISPRUDENTIA

Lat. In the civil and common law. Jurisprudence, or legal science.
Jurisprudentia est divinarum atone hum an arum rerun notitia, justi atque injusti soientia. 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. This defini tlon is adopted by Bracton, word for word Bract, fol. 3.
Jurisprudentia legis communis Angae est soientia sociali at copiosa. The jurisprudence of the common law of England is a science social and comprehensive. 7 Coke, 28a.

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