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It had outlasted jurists on two continents.

Jamaica will restore authority to regional jurists on hot human rights issues such as capital punishment.

During the early empire, numerous commentaries were written by the great jurists on individual leges, on civil law, on the edict, and on law as a whole.

Jackson said that there was not total agreement among Islamic jurists on the point, but Luttwak's assertion to the contrary was wrong.

Even Iran's elections have their quirks: in the weeks before the present one, several hundred candidates, predominantly from the reformist camps, were disqualified by the six clerics and six jurists on the Council of Guardians (a body that was originally formed to supervise elections but now screens the candidates too).

In order to respond suitably to emerging problems, he based his judgments, like other jurists, on the explicit meanings of primary texts (the Qur'an and sunnah).

In 1672 the Elector sent the young jurist on a mission to Paris, where he arrived at the end of March.

She may be the most respected jurist on the left today she was the first person interviewed by Mr Obama after Mr Souter retired.

"The CW network announced Monday that Jeanine Pirro will be the presiding jurist on 'Judge Jeanine Pirro,' weekday afternoons beginning Sept. 22.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg sits on the highest court of the land, but the electronic organizer stashed under a bookshelf confesses to a jazzy up-to-dateness far from the sober jurist on the bench.

More astonishing, however, was to hear the most conservative jurist on the court -- and the man often accused of callousness about the plight of African-Americans -- let loose with a personal accounting of what a burning cross means to a black man in America.