 Study of Jurisprudent started with Romans.

 Latin equilvaent of Jusirprudence is ‘Jurisprudentia’ which mwans either “knowledge of law”

or “skill in law”.
 According to Ulpian jusriprudence is "the knowledge of things divine and human, the science
of the just and unjust".
 Paulus, another roman jurist said "the law is not to be deduced from the rule, but the rule
from the law".
 Alotugh roman jurists gave vague and inadequate deifnations of law, but they put forward
an indpent legal science which are free from instistuions of society.
 In England, jurisprudence is used through early period of common law but with meaning
more than study of or skill in law.
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