[a. F. juriste, ad. med.L. jūrista, f. jūs, jūr- law, right: see -IST.]
† 1. One who practises in law; a lawyer. Obs.
1481. Caxton, Myrr., I. v. 26. They … become aduocates and iuristes for to amasse and gadre alway money.
1489. Caxton, Faytes of A., I. i. 7. As wel auncyent nobles as iuristes and other.
1653. Urquhart, Rabelais, I. xvii. The Parisians … are by nature both good jurers and good jurists.
1849. Macaulay, Hist. Eng., vii. II. 375. All the ablest jurists and advocates of the Tory party had, one after another, refused to comply.
2. One who professes or treats of law; one versed in the science of law; a legal writer.
a. 1626. Bacon, Advt. touching Holy War, in 2nd Pt. Resuscitatio (1670), 46 (J.). This, I say, is not to be measured so much by the Principles of Jurists, as by Lex Charitatis.
1765. Blackstone, Comm., I. vii. 254. In respect to civil suits, all the foreign jurists agree.
1844. H. H. Wilson, Brit. India, I. 415. The doctrines of the Mohammedan jurists are somewhat at variance on this matter.
1879. Froude, Cæsar, xiii. 177. The body of admirable laws which are known to jurists as the ‘Leges Juliæ.’
3. In the Universities: A student of law, or one who takes a degree in law.
1691. Wood, Ath. Oxon., I. 514. This person [John Jones] being entred and settled in a jurists place, he applyed himself to the study of the civil law.
1758. Blackstone, Study of Law, in Comm. (1809), I. 15. One of the three questions to be annually discussed at the act by the jurist-inceptors shall relate to the common law.
1898. Westm. Gaz., 17 Oct., 1/3. Downing provided the Senior Jurist in the years 1882, 1883, and 1884.
