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A Law Dictionary and Glossary · George C. Kinney · 1893

A Law Dictionary and Glossary

I. Right, justice; law; power or authority, v. Juris. Jus accrescendi: the right of survivorship, a principal incident of an estate held by several jointly; — inter mercatores, pro beneflcio commereii, locum non habet: the right of survivorship has no place between merchants, for the benefit of commerce; — prsefertur oneribus: the right of survivorship is preferred to incumbrances; — praifertur ultirase Toluntati: the right of survivorship is pref en-ed to the last will. Jus ad rem: a right to a thing; a right to a thing without possession. Jus albinatus: v. Albinatus ju& Jus belli' the law of war; the right of war; that which may be done without injustice, with regard to an enemy. Jus civile: civil law; the civil law; the whole body of law peculiar to any state; the civil law of the Romans, in particular. Jus dare: to give law; to make law. Jus dicere: to declare the law; to say what the law is. Jus disponendi: the right of disposing. Jus duplicatum: a double right; the right of possession united with the ever is contrary to the rule of right is aa injury. Jus et frans nunqnam cohalbitant: right nad fraud never dwell together. Jus ex injuria non oritur: a right does [or can] not arise out of a wrong. Jus gentium: the law of nations. Jus individunm: an individual or indivisible right; a right incapable of division. Jus in re: a right in a thing; a right in a thing, implying both right and possession; a complete, as distinguished from an imperfect right. Jus mariti: the right of a husband; especially the right of a husband in his wife's movable estate. Jus naturae: the law of nature. Jus navigandi: the right of navigating or navigation; the right of commerce by ships or by sea. Jus non habenti tute non paretur: one who has no right cannot be safely obeyed. Jus non scriptnin: the unwritten law. Jus Papirianum or Jus civile Papirianuin: the civil law of Papirius, — the title of the earliest collection of Roman law. Jus portus: the right of port or harbor. Jus possessionis: a, or the, right of possession, or seisin. Jus postliminil: the right of postliminy; the right by which property taken by an enemy and recaptured or rescued by fellow subjects or allies of the owner is restored to the owner. Jus prailntlonis: the right of preference or priority; the priority of one creditor over another. Jus proprietatls: the.right of property, as distinguished from the jus possessionis, or right of possession. Jus respicit requitatem: the law regards equity. Jus scriptum: written or statute law, called lex scripta, as distinguished from the common law, or lex non scripta. Jus strictum: strict law. Jus tertii: the right or interest of a third person.

In English law

Jus civitatis: denization or natm-alization. Jus commune: the common law. Jus coi'ona): the right of the crown; the right to the crown; the right of succession to the throne. Jus carialitatis: the right of curtesy of England.

In old English law

Further, law, as distinguished from equity; the profession or practice of the law; a judicial tribunal. Jus aquam ducendi: the right of leading water (over another's land). Jus banci: the right of bench; the right or privilege of having an elevated and separate seat of judgment, anciently allowed only to the king's judges. Jus eudenda) monetae: the right of coining money. Jus falcandi: the right of mowing or cutting. Jus fodiendi: the right of digging on land of another. Jus hauriendi: the right of drawing water. Jus merum; mere or bare right; the mere right of property in lands, without possession or the right of possession. Jus pascendi: the right of pasturing cattle. Jus piscandi: the right of fishing. Jus secandi: the right of cutting. Jus venandi: a right of hunting on another's land. In English ecclesiastical laiv. Jus patronatus: the right of patronavoidance, to inquire by a jury of six clergymenwho is the rightful patron. In Scots law. Jus relictse: the right of a relict; of a widow to her share of her husband's movables. ' In the civil law. Further, a rule of law or a right to a thing; a personal right applying obligee, as distinguished from jus in re, a right which is a real right having effect against commune: common right; the common and as opposed to Jus singulare, q. v. Jus deliberandi: liberating; a right of the heir, to consider cept the inheritance or not Jus est ars boni science of what is good and just Jus flduciarinm as distinguished from jus legitimum, a legal the right to the use of rivers. Jus fodieudi: a another's land. Jus glndii: the right of the power of the law; the right, power or prerogative crime. Jus hauriendi: the right of drawing water. the law of immunity, or exemption from the Jus legitimum: a legal right; a right remedied course of law. Jus natnrale: natural law; the the Romans to that law which is derived from which he has in common with the brute creation. new rule. Jus pascendi: the right of pasturing candi: the right of fishing. Jus postliminii: the the right of a person restored to the possession former condition, to be considered as though Jus prsesens: a present or vested right; a right Jus praetorium: the discretion of the prseto: leges, or standing laws. Jus precarium: a which the remedy was only by entreaty, or request, was no remedy at all. Jus publicum, privatorum non potest: a public law or right cannot be ments of private persons. Jus singulare: a rule, differing from theits commune or common vetus: the old rule. In the Roman law. Jus civile: all the Roman honorarium; in a more restricted sense, the and the disputatio fori. Jus civitatis: the right right of a Roman citizen. Jus feciale: the law orarium: the honorary law; a code of equitable piled from the edicts of the praetors and sediles. of Latium or of the Latins, which seems to and six laymen, ' the right or claim estate, particularly the regulation. Jus ad rem: only against the in the thing itself, third persons. Jus natural rule of right, the right of dewhether he would acet sequi: law is the: a right in trust, right Jus flaminnm: right of digging on sword; the executory of punishing for Jusimmunitatis: burden of public office. by the ordinary name given among those instincts of man Jus novum: the cattle. Jus pisright of postliminy; of a thing, or to a never deprived of it completely acquired. as distinct from the right in courtesy, for — for which there pactis mntari altered by the agreepeculiar or anomalous rule of right Jus law except the jus auctoritas prudentum, of citizenship; the of arms. J us honjurisprudence com- Jus Latii: the right have been mainly a Jus necis: the right of death; or of putting a father anciently had over his children. law; that which regards the condition scriptum: written law; all law actually whether originating in enactment or in orum: a right or privilege allowed to the children. In the canon law. Jus ad rem: a right to imperfect right, such as is gained by distinguished from jus in re, or complete acquired by possession. In old European law. Jus geranii: the of unloading goods from a vessel by called a crane. Jus stapulse: the law of a right or privilege of certain towns, of dise, and compelling it to be offered for