jurisprudence vs case law

case law vs jurisprudence

jurisprudence and case law both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
jurisprudence	Yes	No	No	No
case law	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, case law is a hyponym of jurisprudence; that is, case law is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than jurisprudence:

jurisprudence: the collection of rules imposed by authority
case law: a system of jurisprudence based on judicial precedents rather than statutory laws

Other hyponyms of jurisprudence include administrative law, canon law, ecclesiastical law, civil law, common law, precedent, international law, law of nations, law of the land, martial law, commercial law, law merchant, mercantile law, military law, Law of Moses, Mosaic law, Islamic law, sharia, sharia law, shariah, shariah law, statutory law, securities law, tax law.

jurisprudence (noun)	case law (noun)
the branch of philosophy concerned with the law and the principles that lead courts to make the decisions they do	(civil law) a law established by following earlier judicial decisions
the collection of rules imposed by authority	a system of jurisprudence based on judicial precedents rather than statutory laws

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