jurisconsultus

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This Mucius the lawyer ([Greek: nomikos] νομικός), or jurisconsultus, as a Roman would call him, is the P. Mucius Scævola who was consul in the year in which Tiberius Gracchus was murdered.

Plutarch's Lives, Volume II 46-120? Plutarch 1839
Where there is such a legislation, it becomes, in actual application to it, a system of positive right and law; and he who is versed in the knowledge of this system is called a jurist or jurisconsult (jurisconsultus).

The Science of Right 1790
Caius igitur, jurisconsultus, in libro, quem inscripsit ad le - gem XII Tabularum, hssc ait: « Cum autem aerajxa/!

Joannis Laurentii Lydi Philadelpheni De magistratibus reipublicae Romanae ... Johannes Laurentius Lydus, Jean Dominique Fuss, Charles Benoît Hase 1812