Ju`rist (?), n. [F. juriste, LL. jurista, fr. L. jus, juris, right, law. See Just, a.] One who professes the science of law; one versed in the law, especially in the civil law; a writer on civil and international law.

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