A Law Dictionary and Glossary

I In civil and old English law. be fallen; to be in abeyance; to be Jacens: lying; fallen; prostrate; in In old English law. Jacet in ore: it

A throwing or giving out; into circulation, as bank notes, which the issue in actions was; the profits of amercements law is written. Ita qnod: so have the body. Ita semper relatio

I. In old English law. Thrown In the civil law. The throwing of jettison; the thing thrown overboard.

I. In the civil law. A throwing a vessel; jettison; loss from that

jademeins, jadnmeins, 2. Jail. V. Gaol

jalemeyns, ja le ineyns, nevertheless; sometimes; moreover;

I. In old English law. putting together, or including of Judicial discretion: a discretion by the law; a perceiving by, of what would be just. Judicial will take of a fact without

I A person who has the therein, to keep them clean and in eta In old English law. A door-keeper.

Authority to judge, or administer justice; power to act judicially; power or right to pronounce judgment In a more general sense, power to make law, to legislate or govern; right o

justities, I I. In English law. That you justice; a writ, sometimes called breve de justiciando, giving the sheriff authority

An oversight or mistake in ment of an oversight Jeofails, to amend, to cure errors in pleading, Edw. IIL, St 3, c. 6.

Hazard; danger; periL

I. In the Roman law. The treasury. Ms, I In the civil law. Money (literally, brass); any metallic money. Ms alienum: a debt; that which is due to another, ^s snnm: a debt; that whi

jotsom, jetsen, jetzon, jotson. the purpose of lightening a vessel under water, and do not come to

jetson, jettezoon. The goods, in a case of extreme peril, to

An ornament of the person, pared to be worn.

I. In the Roman law. The ^dilitian edict, an edict providing remedies for frauds in sales the execution of which belonged to the curule cediles. ^ditus, editns, I In old English la

1. In civil and old English law. To judge; to decide or determine judicially. Judicatio: judging. Judicatus, judicata, judicatum: adjudged. Jndlcatum solvere: to pay what was adjud

Lat. In the civil and common law. An oath. Juramentum est affirmatio vel negatio de aliquo, attestatione sacrae rei firmata: an oath is an affirmation or denial respecting any matt

Z. In old English law. To swear; to make oath; to take an oath. Jnrare est Deum in testem vocare, et est actus divini cnltus: to swear is to call God to witness, and is an act of r

I. I. A jury, — so called because sworn well and truly to try the issue, etc.; the jurata, or common jury of the ancient law, otherwise called jurata patriae, a jury of the country

I. I In old English law. A juror; a compurgator. Juratores: jurors. Jnratores assisae: jurors of the assise. Juratores debent esse minus snspecti: jurors ought to be free from susp

I. Belonging to law; relating to the administration of justice in or by a court v. Dies juridicus.

Z. In the civil law. One who is consulted on matters of law; a learned person who gives counsel on questions of law; a jurisconsult

In old English law. Amenable; summonable.

jnstltiare, I. I In old English law. To justice; to do justice or right; to compel a person to appear in court Justiciari: to be justiced; to have justice.

L L In old English law. ■ Judicature, prerogative or jurisdiction.

The killing of a human creature without fault or blame, as by command of the law.

A showing of reason why an act complained of might lawfully be done; the procedure by which the competency or sufflciency of bail is made out

I. Justica Jastitla debet esse libera, quia niliil iniquius Yenali jnstitia; plena, qnia jnstitia non debet claudicare; et celeris, qnia dilatio est qnsedam neg'atio: justice ought

I I Justices. Jnstitiarii de Banco: justices of the Bench. Jnstitiai'ii de ntroqne Banco, or ntrinsqne Banci: justices of either Bench. Jnstitiarii regis de Banco apud Westmonaster

I. In the civil law. An intermission in the administration of justice; vacation time.

I. Just; right; lawful; according to law.

I In old English law. Inferior clerks of chancery, so called.

A merchant who purchases tailers.

I In old English law. A game divided risk, or hazard, — an were sometimes allowed to make tled upon the result of a hazard.

A joining or uniting together in demurrer: a pleading or formula, a suit joins in, or accepts an issue party. Joinder in issue: a formula a suit joins in, or accepts an issue party

United; combined; done by or against two or more unitedly; shared by, or between two or more. Joint action: an action in which two or more unite, or are united as parties. Joint an

jointuress. A woman having a jointure.

Strictly a joint estate limited to both husband and wife, and such was its original form; but, in its more usual form, it is a sole estate limited to the wife only, expectant upon

journee, jornee, I. fr. A day; a court, or court day; the day of holding a court

jonrnees or jonrneis accompts, I. fr., Journeys accounts. Journeys reckoned or computed; days' journeys reckoned or computed. Applied to a fresh writ issued after abatement of a fo

I. In the civil law. To order, direct or command; to assure or promise; to decree or pass a law.

A public officer authorized by law to hear and determine causes, and who holds courts statedly for that purpose; a person who presides in a court of judicature, either solely or wi

Judicium, 2., Jugement,/r. The sentence of the law pronounced by a court upon the matter contained in the record; the act, process or business of judging, that is, of hearing as we

The statutes reorganizing the English courts, particularly the statute of the 36 & 37 Vict, c. 66.

I. Judges. Judices non tenentur exprimere cansam senteiitise suae: judges are not bound to express the reason of their sentence or judgment In the civil law. Judices ordinarii: or

1. In old English law. Judgments. Judicia in deliberationibus crebro maturescunt, in accelerate processu nunquam: judgments frequently become matured by deliberations; never by liu

Belonging to the office of a judge; relating to, or connected with, the administration of justice; having the character of judgment or formal legal procedure; proceeding from a cou

Relating to that department do with the expounding and of that department of government the law; the judges taken congress of September 34, 1789, of the federal courts.

I. Judgment. Judicium a momenti: a judgment given by one judge of the cause) is of no weight. judgment is, as it were, the speech law and right Judicium judgment by execution. Judi

Younger; later or more recent, as a junior creditor, execution, judgment, writ, etc. As applied to a person it is a word of description merely, and no part of the name.

I Rights; laws; freedoms or abilities. Jnra eodem modo destituuntnr qno constitnnntnr: laws are abrogated by the same means [authority] by which they are mada Jura naturae sunt ira

In Scots law. Security given by oath.

I By right; in right; by the law. Jure belli: by the right, or law of war. Jure civili: by the civil law. Jure divino: by divine right Jure ecclesisc: in right of the church. Jure

juree, I fr. A jury.

Relating to the administration of justice; relating to the ofl Sce of a judga Juridical day: a day on which courts sit for the administration of justice.

Lat. Of law; of right. v. Jus. Juris effectus in executione consistit: the effect of the law consists in the execution. Juris et de jure: of law and from law; a term applied to con

I. In old English law. Jurisdiction; authority to judge, or administer justica Jurisdictio est potestas de publico introdncta, cum necessitate juris dicendi: jurisdiction is a powe

The science of law; knowledge of law.

Lat. In the civil and common law. Jurisprudence, or legal science. Jurisprudentia est divinarum atque humanarum rerum notitia, justi atque injusti scientia: jurisprudence is the kn

One who is versed or skilled in law; now commonly a person eminent mainly for knowledge of the theoretic side of the law.

Pertaining to jurisprudence. Juristic act: an act intended to have a legal effect

A person sworn on a jury; a juryman.

In the broadest sense, a certain number of men, selected according to law, and sworn to inquire of certain matters of fact, and declare the truth upon evidence to be laid before th

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

I. In the civil law. An oath. factum nee nocere nee prodesse debet: others ought neither to.hurt nor to profit,

Fair; adequate; reasonable; probable.

I. In the civil law. A just legal transaction.

In old English law. To do justice to see justice done.

I. fr. and eng. The virtue which one what is his due; that which is one's which is the object of the law; a judge judicial ofl Bcer of any lower grade, as a tice of the peace: in E

In English law. The principal court of the forest, held before the chief justice in eyre, or chief itinerant judge, or his deputy,— to hear and determine all pleas and causes arisi

J nsticiarins, justitiarius, justitia, I. I, Justicier, l.fr. In old English law. A justice or justicer. Jnsticlarii Itinerantes: justices in eyre. Justiciarii residentes: justices

The supreme criminal court of Scotland, composed of five lords of Session, with the lord president or justice-clerk as president The justices hold three circuits, 'and an appeal li

To make out, or establish according to law,— particularly the sufficiency of bail.