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jurisprudence
1、 A system of law.
2、 The study and philosophy of law.
🌱As a young lawyer his heroes were the crusaders of 20th-century jurisprudence, especially Louis Brandeis and Thurgood Marshall. 🌳Jurisprudence as a study may have begun in the Roman empire, where schools of law were first established. And Roman jurisprudence, like so many other things the Romans created, served as the model in later centuries throughout the Western world. And like many other legal words, jurisprudence is used only in formal writing. abjure To reject formally.
🌱The Spanish Inquisition forced many Jews to abjure their religion and adopt Christianity or be burned at the stake. 🌳From its Latin roots, abjure would mean literally "to swear away." Thus, after the holidays many people abjure all sweets and fattening foods, often making their vow in front of friends or relatives. Abjure is often confused with adjure, which means "to command solemnly, as if under oath." Thus, a judge might adjure a criminal to change his ways; but it's up to the criminal to abjure a life of crime. perjury The crime of telling a lie under oath.
🌱Found guilty of perjury for lying under oath in front of a Congressional committee, he was sentenced to two years in prison. 🌳The prefix per- in Latin often meant "harmfully." So witnesses who perjure themselves do harm to the truth by knowingly telling a lie. Not all lying is perjury, only lying under oath; so perjury generally takes place either in court or before a legislative body such as Congress. To avoid committing perjury, a witness or defendant may "take the Fifth": that is, refuse to answer a question because the answer might be an admission of guilt, and the Fifth Amendment to the Constitution forbids forcing a citizen to admit to being guilty of a crime. de jure Based on or according to the law.
🌱The country is a de jure democracy, but since one party controls all the media outlets it really isn't one. 🌳Coming straight from Latin, de jure is a term used mostly, but not always, in legal writing. Sometimes it's not enough to have something written into law; if a law isn't enforced, it might as well not exist. And if ordinary citizens are too scared of what would happen to them if they exercised their rights, then they don't really have those rights at all. Unfortunately, many countries have constitutions and laws that sound good but turn out not to have much effect. So de jure is almost always used in contrast to something else; its opposite is de facto （See de）facto.
2、 The study and philosophy of law.
🌱As a young lawyer his heroes were the crusaders of 20th-century jurisprudence, especially Louis Brandeis and Thurgood Marshall. 🌳Jurisprudence as a study may have begun in the Roman empire, where schools of law were first established. And Roman jurisprudence, like so many other things the Romans created, served as the model in later centuries throughout the Western world. And like many other legal words, jurisprudence is used only in formal writing. abjure To reject formally.
🌱The Spanish Inquisition forced many Jews to abjure their religion and adopt Christianity or be burned at the stake. 🌳From its Latin roots, abjure would mean literally "to swear away." Thus, after the holidays many people abjure all sweets and fattening foods, often making their vow in front of friends or relatives. Abjure is often confused with adjure, which means "to command solemnly, as if under oath." Thus, a judge might adjure a criminal to change his ways; but it's up to the criminal to abjure a life of crime. perjury The crime of telling a lie under oath.
🌱Found guilty of perjury for lying under oath in front of a Congressional committee, he was sentenced to two years in prison. 🌳The prefix per- in Latin often meant "harmfully." So witnesses who perjure themselves do harm to the truth by knowingly telling a lie. Not all lying is perjury, only lying under oath; so perjury generally takes place either in court or before a legislative body such as Congress. To avoid committing perjury, a witness or defendant may "take the Fifth": that is, refuse to answer a question because the answer might be an admission of guilt, and the Fifth Amendment to the Constitution forbids forcing a citizen to admit to being guilty of a crime. de jure Based on or according to the law.
🌱The country is a de jure democracy, but since one party controls all the media outlets it really isn't one. 🌳Coming straight from Latin, de jure is a term used mostly, but not always, in legal writing. Sometimes it's not enough to have something written into law; if a law isn't enforced, it might as well not exist. And if ordinary citizens are too scared of what would happen to them if they exercised their rights, then they don't really have those rights at all. Unfortunately, many countries have constitutions and laws that sound good but turn out not to have much effect. So de jure is almost always used in contrast to something else; its opposite is de facto （See de）facto.
JUR comes from the Latin verb jurare,"to swear, take an oath," and the noun jus,"right or law." A jury, made up of jurors, makes judgments based on the law. And a personal injury was originally something done to you that a court would find unjust.🌸