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Jus Prætorium

Black's Law Dictionary · Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

Black's Law Dictionary

In the civil law. The discretion of the prætor, as distinct from the leges or standing laws.

3 Bl. Comm. 49.

That kind of law which the prætors introduced for the purpose of aiding, supplying or correcting the civil law for the publlc benefit.

Dig. 1, 1, 7.

Called, also, "jus honorarium," (q; v.)