jus privatum

Power was in the Crown by virtue of the jus privatum to convey the soil beneath the waters for uses merely private, but subject always to the jus publicum, the right to navigate and fish.

The king's private property in the soil covered by navigable water. 202 111. 433. JUS PROJICIENDI (Lat.)

In civil law. The name of a servitude by which the owner of a building has a right of projecting a part of his building towards the adjoining house, without resting on the latter. It is extended merely over the ground. Dig. 50. 16. 242; Id. 8. 2. 25; Id. 8. 5. 8. 5,

The municipal law of the Romans as distinguished from the jus publicum^ which was the law of political conditions and of crimes (with that of criminal procedure). Campbell's Analysis of Austin, 143. "The relations of power subsisting between persons and the world of things, or the equivalents of things, are the subject-matter of private law. Private law, in other words, has to do with the dominion of persons over things. Its pith is, therefore, contained in the law of property. The subject-matter of public law are the relations of power which subsist between poisons and persons. Here, the power is ideal, in the sense that its object is the free-will of another, i. e. something invisible and outwardly intangible. Public law, then, has to do with the dominibn of persons over persons. The rights of control with which such private law is concerned are reducible to a money value; the rights of control with which public law is concerned are not thus reducible. In private law, again, the subject of a right appears in his individual capacity, as commanding the world of material things. law, on the other hand, the subject of a oommunlty whlcb It Is bis part to ssrvs In order that be may share In tbe benefits it confers. Finally, as against tbeir object, the rights of private law merely confer a power, the rights of public law, on, the other band, Impose, at the same time, a duty on the person to whom the right pertains. The distinction is clearly exemplified in the case of the right of ownership in a thing, on one side, and the right of a sovereign over his people on the other." Sohm, Inst. Rom. L. { 7. JUS PROJICIENDI (Lat). In Civil Law. The name of a servitude by which the owner of a building has a right of projecting a part of his building towards the adjoining house, without resting on the latter. It is extended merely over the ground. Dig. 60. 16. 242; 8. 2. 25; 8. 6. 8. 6.

Private law; the law regulating the rights, conduct, and affairs of Indlvlduala, as distinguished from "publlc" law, which relates to the constitution and functions of government and the administration of criminal Justice. See Mackeld. Rom. Law, § 124. Also private ownership or the right, title or dominion of a private owner, as distinguished from "jus publicum," which denotes publlc ownership or the ownership of property by the government, either as a matter of territorial sovereignty or in trust for the benefit and advantage of the general public.

In this sense, a state may have a double right in given property, e. p., lands covered by navigable waters within its boundaries, including both "jus publicum," a sovereign or political title, and "jus privatum," a proprietary ownership. See Oakland v. Oakland Water Front Co., 118 Cal. 160, 50 Pac. 277.

The civil or municipal law of Rome.