Jus Tripertitum
Defined in 5 dictionaries — Cyclopedic (1922), Ballentine's (1916), Bouvier (1914), Black's (1910), Black's (1891)
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
In the Roman law. The law of wills. Sir Henry Maine says that it is so called because of its three-fold derivation from the imperial constitutions, the civil law, and the praetorian edicts. Anc. Law, 207.
Ballentine's Law Dictionary
James A. Ballentine · 1916
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia
John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914
A threefold right. The term is used by Justinian who says that the requisites of the Roman testament seem to have had a triple origin (ut hoc jus tripertitum esse videatur). Sand. Inst. Just. 2, 10, 3. “It is out of regard to this threefold derivation from the prjctorian edict, from the civil law, and from the imperial constitutions, that Justinian speaks of the law of wills in his own days as jus tripertitum." Maine, Anc. L. 207. JUS UTENDI (Lat.). The right to use property without destroying its substance. It is employed in contradistinction to the jus abutendi. 3 Toulller, n. 86.
Black's Law Dictionary
Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910
A Dictionary of Law
Henry Campbell Black · 1891
In Roman law. A name applied to the Roman law of wills, in the time of Justinian, on account of its threefold derivation, viz., from the pretorian edict, from the civil law, and from the imperial constitutions. Maine, Anc. Law, 207, dus triplex est,—proprictatis, possessionis, ot possibilitatis. Right is threefold, —of property, of possession, and of possibility.