The legal acuteness, the passionate declamations, the sound maxims of jurisprudence, the wit and irony interspersed in it, the fluctuations of hope and fear in the different persons, and the completeness and suddenness of the catastrophe, cannot be surpassed".
The objective, detached, call-'em-as-I-see-'em jurisprudence sounds eminently fair, and it usually is, if the umpire really has no skin in the game.
Justice Kennedy said on Wednesday that while the court's death penalty jurisprudence "remains sound," it should not be expanded to cover a crime for which no one has been executed in the United States for the past 44 years.
Although some of his statements were modified or invalidated by later research Ancient Law is noted for its general lack of reference to authorities and its failure to cite supporting evidence for its conclusions his study helped to place comparative jurisprudence on a sound historical footing.
A gripping novel, absorbing right to the end, "The Sound of Things Falling" concerns a young professor of jurisprudence named Antonio who plays billiards every afternoon in Bogotá to unwind after delivering his lecture.
When the judges on the D.C. Circuit Court heard an appeal of Walton's denial, two years later, they upheld it, although Judge Harry T. Edwards, in his concurrence, at least sounded frustrated by where the "vagaries" of Guantánamo jurisprudence had led.
As a bulwark protecting abortion rights, that language sounded fairly solid: the application of the purpose-or-effect test to abortion jurisprudence was one of the signal contributions of Sandra Day O'Connor, and it had the markings of her pragmatic approach.
The term "blood money" sounds dramatic, but it just means a financial penalty paid to the victim in Islamic jurisprudence, it's called diyat.
The term "blood money" sounds dramatic, but it just means a financial penalty paid to the victim — in Islamic jurisprudence, it's called diyat.
Lectures on jurisprudence.
There is no jurisprudence".
