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Jus Descendit

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

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary

ET NON TERRA

A right descends, not the land.

Co. Litt. 345.

JUS DICERE (Lat.) To declare the law. It is the province of the court jus dicere, to declare what the law is.