Jurisconsults
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jurisconsults · advocates · juris consultorum · jurisconsulti · jurists · the ingenuity of the Jurisconsults
in the texts
Institutes of Roman Law
Roman legal experts and advocates whose knowledge underpins bonae fidei adjudication and courtroom practice.
At this appearance the parties were attended by counsel (haerere in jure atque praetorum tribunalibus [advocatos] De Oratore, 1, 38);
The following passage of Cicero speaks of actions whose formula was in jus concepta with the additional terms, ex fide bona or the like;
Est enim sine dubio domus jurisconsulti totius oraculum civitatis.
Ancient Law
Roman legal scholars credited with refining the Mancipatory Testament through interpretation.
Meantime the ingenuity of the Jurisconsults effects, in the Common-Law Will or Mancipatory Testament, the very improvements which the Prætor may have concurrently carried out in Equity.
and at a period less bigoted to antiquarian forms, and perhaps not quite alive to their significance, all the ingenuity of the Jurisconsults seems to have been expended on the improvement of the more venerable instrument.