Jūrist, n.

(89), n. [L. Lat. jurista, from Lat. jus, juris, right, law; Fr. juriste, Sp. jurista, It. giurista.]

1. A man who professes the science of law; one versed in the law; especially, in the civil law, a civil lawyer; a civilian. Bacon.
2. One versed in the law of nations, or a writer of distinction on that or any other legal subject.

It has ever been the method of public jurists to draw a great part of the analogies on which they form the law of nations, from the principles of law which prevail in civil community.