A first century jurist recounts the story of a man beating his wife to death because she had drunk some wine.

Bulgarus was a twelfth century Italian jurist, born at Bologna.

Edward Littleton's father was Richard Littleton, a younger son of the great 15th century jurist, Thomas de Littleton.

Despite this, he is - with Contius, Balduinus, Cujacius, Hotmannus and Donellus - among the group of 16th century French jurists that brought Humanist jurisprudence to its peak.

He opposed the idea, common to French 18th century jurists and Bentham, that law can be arbitrarily imposed on a country irrespective of its state of civilization and history.

Qutb made no secret of being influenced by Ibn Taymiyya, a 14th century clerical jurist whose violent views about Islam were provoked by his own family's having to flee Baghdad during the Mongol invasions.

Whether or not these legends were true (Edbury, for one, believes they were not), the 13th century jurists envisioned the legal structure of the kingdom to have existed continuously from the original conquest.

He was a descendant of the noted 18th century jurist John Erskine of Carnock.

According to the 13th century jurist John of Ibelin the four highest barons in the kingdom proper were:

The earliest direct evidence is a statement of the 2nd century jurist Celsus, who states that there were two halves of a 48-hour day, and that the intercalated day was the "posterior" half.