judicial doctrine

Questions about judicial doctrine

What does judicial doctrine mean?

judicial doctrine means "(law) a principle underlying the formulation of jurisprudence".

What is another word for judicial doctrine?

Close synonyms include legal principle, judicial principle. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is judicial doctrine a common word?

judicial doctrine is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.