Jus Commune
A Dictionary of Law · Henry Campbell Black · 1891
A Dictionary of Law
In the civil law. Common right; the common and natural rule of right, 2s opposed to jus singulare, (q. v.) Mackeld.
Rom. Law, § 196.
In English law
The common law, anawering to the Saxon “foleright.”
1 BI. Comm. 67.
Jus constitui oportet in his que ut plurimum accidunt non que ex inopinate. Laws ought to be made with a view to those cases which happen most frequently, and not to those which are of rare or accidental occurrence, Dig. 1, 3, 3; Broom, Max. 43.