Junior
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
Younger; subsequent to in point of time. Thus, junior creditor, one whose claim accrued after that of another; junior judgment, one entered after another against the same person; junior writ, one issued after another against the same person. The term is no part of the name of a person. It is a term used to designate and describe the person, as the name of his residence is sometimes used for the same purpose.
131 Mass. 184.
As applied to a manufactured article, it indicates the later or more recent product, or a smaller type or model of a machine that has been on the market.
249 Fed. 52.
JURA (Lat. pi. of jus, q. v.) Rights; laws.
1 Bl. Comm. 123.
Freedoms or abilities. Bac. Works, iii.
265.
JURA ECCLESIASTICA LI MIT ATA sunt infra limites separates. Ecclesiastical laws are limited within separate bounds.
3 Bulst 53.
JURA EODEM MODO DE8TITUUNTUR quo con,stituuntur. Laws are abrogated or repealed by the same means by which they are made.
Broom, Leg. Max. (3d London Ed.) 785.
JURA FISCALIA (Lat.) In English law. JURA IN RE (Lat.) In civil law. Rights in a thing, as opposed to rights to a thing (jura ad rem). Rights in a thing which are not gone upon loss of possession, and which give a right to an action in rem against whoever has the possession. These rights are of four kinds: Dominium, hereditas, servitus, pignus.
Heinec. Elem. Jur. Civ. § 333.
See "Jus in Re." JURA MIXTl DOMINII.
In old English law
Rights of mixed dominion. The king's right or power of jurisdiction was so termed.
Hale, Anal. § 6.