English law

To use improperly; to abuse. behavior; a wrongful act incurring liability in of justice: a failure in the administration A less heinous species of crime; an inamounting to felony. law. Cost or expense; the issue in real acwrits of right jus est vagum ant incertnm [incognitnm], I of slavery, where the law is shifting or un- I.

In the civil law. A sad or lamentable deunder circumstances of sorrow or misfortune, fire, shipwreck, etc.; the first word of the fifty-first psalm, the was commonly given to such malefactors to