Chiefly Sc. Obs. [ad. L. jūr-, stem of jūs law, right: ‘in jure’ answers to L. in jūre.]
1. The science of law, jurisprudence.
1496. Sc. Acts Jas. IV. (1814), 238/1. To remane thre ȝeris at þe sculis of art and Iure, sua þat þai may haue knawlege … of þe lawis.
1500–20. Dunbar, Poems, lxiii. 4. Doctouris in jure and medicyne. Ibid., lxv. 3. To speik of science … Off jure, of wisdome, or intelligence.
1556. Lauder, Tractate, 448. Thay suld haue knawlage of boith the Iuris, Als weill the Canone as Ciuile law.
2. A just privilege, a right.
1533. Bellenden, Livy, IV. (1822), 314. Gif the tribunis has … tane fra the Faderis thare majesties and juris.
c. 1745. in Gentl. Mag. (1773), XLIII. 498. Sherlock the Elder, with his jure divine, Did not comply till the battle of Boyne.
