Množina: jurisprudences
ETYM Latin jurisprudentia; jus, juris, right, law + prudentia a foreseeing, knowledge of a matter, prudence: cf. French jurisprudence. Related to Just, and Prudence.
The branch of philosophy concerned with the law; SYN. law, legal philosophy.
Science of law; knowledge of law.
The science of law in the abstract—that is, not the study of any particular laws or legal system, but of the principles upon which legal systems are founded.