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Jus Commune

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary

In Civil Law. Common right; the common and natural rule of right, as opposed to jus singular e (q. v.).

Mackeld. Civ. Law, § 196.

In English Law. The common law, answering to the Saxon "folcright."

1 Bl. Comm. 67.

JUS CONSTITUI OPORTET IN HIS quae ut plurlmum accidunt non quae ex inopinato. 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, Leg. Max. 43.