* 1723 – William Blackstone, English politician and jurist ( d. 1780 )

* 1732 – William Cushing, American jurist ( d. 1810 )

* 1898 – William O. Douglas, American jurist ( d. 1980 )

* 1931 – William P. Clark, American jurist, and 44th United States Secretary of the Interior

William Blackstone, a notable English jurist writing in 1769, speculated that the name may have derived from the legal word " starr " meaning the contract or obligation to a Jew ( from the Hebrew שטר ( shetar ) meaning ' document ').

** William Barclay, Scottish jurist ( b. 1546 )

* September 30 – William Wilfred Sullivan, Canadian journalist, politician, and jurist ( b. 1843 )

* May 28 – Frederic William Maitland, English jurist and historian ( d. 1906 )

** William Barclay, Scottish jurist ( d. 1608 )

* August 9 – William Noy, English jurist ( b. 1577 )

* February 14 – William Blackstone, English jurist ( b. 1723 )

* July 10 – William Blackstone, English jurist ( d. 1780 )

** William Noy, English jurist ( d. 1634 )

* Lord Mansfield ( William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield ) ( 1705 – 1793 ), British jurist, presided over the Somersett Case, which confirmed slavery was not recognised by English law

* William Owsley ( 1782 – 1862 ) was an American politician and jurist who became the sixteenth Governor of Kentucky.

* William Owsley ( 1782 – 1862 ) was an American politician and jurist who became the sixteenth Governor of Kentucky.

* William Blackstone, jurist and barrister

* William Fones, jurist

William Barclay ( 1546 – 1608 ) was a Scottish jurist.

** William Hume Blake ( 1809 – 1870 ), Canadian jurist and politician

William Noy ( 1577 – 9 August 1634 ) was a noted British jurist.

* William Bradford ( Attorney General ) ( 1755 – 1795 ), soldier, jurist, U. S. Attorney General under George Washington

Sir William Blackstone KC SL ( 10 July 1723 – 14 February 1780 ) was an English jurist, judge and Tory politician of the eighteenth century.

* Sir William Blackstone ( 1723 – 1780 ), English jurist

The Circuit Court jurist said the boy will have a hearing in Juvenile Court.

The jurist Sextus Pomponius said, " At the beginning of our city, the people began their first activities without any fixed law, and without any fixed rights: all things were ruled despotically, by kings ".

The role of guardianship as a legal institution gradually diminished, and by the 2nd century AD the jurist Gaius said he saw no reason for it.

In 1914, Canadian jurist Augustus Henry Frazer Lefroy said " a ' leading case ' one that settles the law upon some important point.

“ Craig Wright was an extraordinary jurist ,” said Chief Justice Thomas J. Moyer.

The phrase ( in air form ) is credited to 13th century Italian jurist Accursius, and is said to date in common law to the time of Edward I.

It is named for New York jurist and legal scholar James Kent, who represented the Michigan Territory in its dispute with Ohio over the Toledo Strip.

In the United States the only teaching of the game, except a few paragraphs in the late American editions of Hoyle's Games, and of Bonn's New Hand-Book of Games, is contained in The Game of Euchre ; with its Laws, 32rno., Philadelphia, 1850, pp. 32, attributed to a late learned jurist.

Finding that no lesser person than the jurist Sir Matthew Hale had permitted this evidence, supported by the eminent philosopher, physician and author Thomas Browne, to be used in the Bury St Edmunds witch trial and the accusations against two Lowestoft women, held in 1662 in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, England, they also accepted its validity and the trials proceeded.

The status of the villein and the conditions of the manor in the 12th and 13th centuries are set forth with a legal precision and a wealth of detail which shows its author, not only as a very capable historian, but also as a brilliant and learned jurist.

As British Resident, he acted as New Zealand's first jurist, and the ' originator of law in Aotearoa ', to whom New Zealand owes almost all of its underlying jurisprudence '.

1370 – 1435 ) was a distinguished scholar, jurist and rector of the Cracow Academy who defended Poland and native non-Christian tribes against the Teutonic Knights and its policies of conquest.

He was a jurist of a special type: to him law was not mere theory, but a living force ; and this conception of its power animates all his schemes of practical reform.

His chief merit as a jurist lay in breaking with past unscientific methods in the teaching of Roman law and in making its spirit intelligible to students.

Despite the plague that had reduced its population from the 13, 000 of 1503 to 6, 000, Venosa had a flourishing cultural life under the Gesualdos: apart from the famous Carlo, other relevant figures of the period include the poet Luigi Tansillo ( 1510-1580 ) and the jurist Giovanni Battista De Luca ( 1614-1683 ).

Mariano Azuela Güitrón ( b. April 1, 1936 in Mexico City ) is a Mexican jurist who was a member of the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation ( SCJN ) from 1983 to 2009 and served as its President ( Chief Justice ) from 2003 to 2007.

) is a Mexican jurist who was a member of the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation ( SCJN ) from 1995 to 2009 and served as its President ( Chief Justice ) from 1999 to 2003.

The brother of noted jurist A. V. Dicey, he was called to the bar himself in 1875, and became a bencher of Gray's Inn in 1896, serving as its treasurer from 1903 until 1904.

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