jurisprudent

adj

1. Understanding law; skilled in jurisprudence.

   “For if belligerent rights were worthy to be gravely discussed by conferences and commissions of very jurisprudent gentlemen, why shall not expectorant rights — never until now discussed or settled, but existing only in the great common or unwritten law of usage—be once for all clearly confirmed, settled, and defined?”

   “'Adieu!' he says, 'I am going to my tutor's lectures on one Puffendorf, a very jurisprudent author as you shall read on a summer's day.'”

2. Pertaining to jurisprudence.

   “By this, I wanted to point out how subtle and conscientious our judgment of jurisprudent ideas should be, and what kind of historic approach we have to cherish towards them.”

   “The jurisprudent psychology analysis is designed to ensure that the results of clinical and forensic interventions for each individual comport with the law's emphasis on principles of justice and fairness.”

   “It is much more prudent and therefore also much more jurisprudent to endeavour to understand what really happens in law and legal theory.”

   ““And you can't be drinking alcohol on the community stairs, either,” he added, very jurisprudent.”

noun

1. Someone skilled in law or jurisprudence.

   “Nobody should imagine that the fitness of the jurisprudent for rule raises him to the status of prophecy or of Imams because our discussion here is not concerned with status and rank but with the actual task.”

   “Both the official and the jurisprudent can make mistakes; they can go wrong.”

   “According to Shaun McVeigh, the persona of the jurisprudent 'is presented in terms of dissent from the (major) jurisprudences of rationalist legal traditions and state authority.”