a. [f. med.L. jūrista JURIST + -IC: see -ISTIC.] Of or belonging to a jurist; pertaining or relating to the subject or study of law; legal; created by law.
1831. Carlyle, Early Germ. Lit., in Misc. Ess. (1872), III. 198. Men as brave as they of the Robber-Towers,… who in many a stout fight taught them a juristic doctrine. Ibid. (1837), Fr. Rev., III. II. vi. In the Convention Tribune, it drones continually, mere Juristic Eloquence.
1875. Poste, Gaius, I. 153. A University of persons in the private code is a fictitious or juristic person [cf. Ger. juristische Person].
So Juristics sb., the study or theory of law.
1837. Carlyle, Fr. Rev., III. II. v. The rest … welter amid Law of Nations, Social Contract, Juristics, Syllogistics.
