Jus civitatis

In Roman Law. The full franchise of citizenship comprising, on the one hand, public rights, including the right of holding office and the right of voting; and on the other hand private rights. Including the right to hold and dispose of property, according to the forms of the civil law, and the right of marriage, and all domestic relations. Morey, Rom. L. 48. The collection of laws which are to be observed among all the members of a nation. It is opposed to iu8 gentium, which is the law which regulates the affairs of nations among themselves. 2 Lepage, El. du Dr. c. 6, 1. It was very much what is understood in modem terminology by municipal law. JUS CLOAC/E MITTEND/E. In Civil Law. The name of a servitude which requires the party who is subject to it to permit his neighbor to conduct the waters which fall on his grounds over those of the servient estate.