🇮🇹Italian Source WordCode: IT

giurisprudenza

Pronunciation / Transliteration: dʒu.ris.pruˈdɛn.tsa

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Caselaw/ˈkeɪs.lɔː/
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🇮🇹 Example Sentence in Italian:

"La giurisprudenza recente ha cambiato l'interpretazione della norma."

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    The law as established by the outcome of former cases; judicial precedents.

    "The defense attorney relied heavily on existing caselaw to support her argument."
  2. 2

    A collection of reported legal cases that form the body of law in a specific jurisdiction.

    "Students spent hours researching caselaw in the university's law library."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the combination of the English words 'case' (from Old French 'cased', Latin 'casus', meaning an occurrence or legal action) and 'law' (from Old Norse 'lög', meaning something laid down or fixed). Established in Anglo-American jurisprudence to describe the body of reported legal judgments and judicial precedents.

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