Jus Italicum
Defined in 3 dictionaries — Ballentine's (1916), Bouvier (1914), Black's (1910)
Ballentine's Law Dictionary
James A. Ballentine · 1916
The rights of a Roman colony.
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia
John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914
In Roman Law. A right bestowed upon a community by which it acquired “the privileges of a colonla Itallca (i. e. an old colony of Roman citizens endowed with full legal rights), that its soil is therefore exempt from the land-tax and capable of quiritary ownership, in other words, is placed on the same footing as the fundas Italicus." Ileisterbergk, Name und Begriff dcs jus Italicuin (1885). ^hm, Inst. Rom. L. § 22, n. 2.
Black's Law Dictionary
Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910
A term of the Roman law descriptive of the aggregate of rights, privileges, and franchises possessed by the cities and inhabitants of Italy, outside of the city of Rome, and afterwards extended to some of the colonies and provinces of the empire, consisting principally in the right to have a free constitution, to be exempt from the land tax, and to have the title to the land regarded as Quiritarian property. See Gibbon, Rom. Emp. c. xvll; Mackeld. Rom. Law, § 43.