The corpus record — Latin

jūris-prūdentĭa

jūris-prūdentĭa · f

the science of law, jurisprudence

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What it meant

jūris-prūdentĭa — Lewis & Short

jūris-prūdentĭa, ae (also separately and prūdentĭa jūris, f.2. jus-prudentia,

Cic. de Or. 1, 60, 256; cf. Nep. Cim. 2, 1),

I the science of law, jurisprudence (postclass.): jurisprudentia cst divinarum humanarumque rerum notitia, justi atque injusti scientia, Dig. 1, 1, 10, § 2; Just. Inst. 1, 1, 1.

Where it came from

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