Jus Duplicatum
A Dictionary of Law · Henry Campbell Black · 1891
A Dictionary of Law
A double right; the right of possession united with the right of property; otherwise called "droit-droit."
2 Bl. Comm. 199.
Jus est ars boni et aequi
Law is the science of what is good and just.
Dig. 1, 1, 1; Bract. fol. 2b.
Jus est norma recti; et quicquid est contra normam recti est injuria. Law is a rule of right; and whatever is contrary to the rule of right is an injury.
3 Bulst. 313.
Jus et fraus nunquam cohabitant
Right and fraud never dwell together.
10 Coke, 45a.
Applied to the title of a statute. Id.; Best, Ev. p.
250, § 208.
Jus ex injuria non oritur
A right does (or can) not arise out of a wrong.
4 Bing. 639; Broom, Max. 738, note.