Law Dictionary

The right of disposing.

The right of sale of goods pledged in case of non-payment See Pledge; Distress. JUS DIVIDEND!. The right of testamentary disposition of real estate. JUS DUPLICATUM (Lat. double rig

The right of disposing of realty by will. Du Cange. JUS DUPLICATUM (Lat. double right). When a man has the possession as well as the property of anything, he is said to have a doub

A double right. See 2 Bl. Comm. 199.

JUS EDICENDI. The right to issue edicts. It belonged to all the higher magistrates, but special interest is attached to the praetorian edicts in connection with the history of Roma

Law is the science of what is good and just. Dig. 1. 1. 1. 1. JUS EST NORMA RECTI; ET QUICquid est contra normam recti est Injuria. The law Is the rule of right; and whatever is co

Law ls a rule of right; and whatever is contrary to the rule of right ls an injury. 3 Bulst 313.

Justice is the rule of right and whatever is contrary to the rule of right is an injury.

Right and fraud never dwell together. 10 Coke, 45a. Applied to the title of a statute. Id.; Best, Ev. p. 250, § 205.

Justice and fraud never live together.

A right does (or can) not rise out of a wrong. Broom, Max. 738, note; 4 Bing. 639.

A right cannot arise from a wrong. 4 Bin. 639.

Law constituted by custom or such usage as indicates the tacit consent of the community. The definition of Ulplan was: “Diutuma consuetudo pro jure et lege in his qua non ex script

(Lat.) In old English law. The right of mowing or cutting. Fleta, lib. 4, c. 27, § 1. JUSFECIALE (Lat.) In Roman law. That species of international law which had its foundation in

Fecial law, which see.

In the civil law. A right in trust; as distinguished from jus legitimum, a legal right. 2 Bl. Comm. 328.

A right in trust. See 3 Bl. Comm. 328.

In old Roman law. A body of laws drawn up by Cneius Flavins, a clerk of Appius Claudius, from the materials to which he had access. It was a popularization of the laws. Mackeld. Ci

In civil law. The right to the use of rivers. Locc. de Jur. Mar. lib. 1, c. 6. JUS FODIENDI (Lat.) In the civil and old English law. A right of digging on another's land. Inst. 2.

The right of digging in the land of another.

In the civil law. A future right; an inchoate, incipient or expectant right, not yet fully vested. It may be either "jus delatum," when the subsequent acquisition or vesting of it

Law of nations, which see.

The right of the sword, i. e., to punish for crime.

The right of having possession.

The right of having and keeping the rewards and fruits of a rectory or parsonage.

A right to have and to retain the profits, tithes, and offerings, etc., of a rectory or parsonage.

The right of inheritance. Rapalje & L.

(Lat.) In civil and old English law. The right of drawing water. Fleta, lib. 4, c. 27, § 1.

The body of Roman law, which was made up of edicts of the supreme mag^istrates, particularly the praetors.

In Roman Law. The right of holding ofl Sces. See Jus Suffbagii.

The right of inheritance.

In Roman Law. The right of displaying the pictures and statues of one’s ancestors, somewhat as in the English law of Heraldry, there is a right to the coat-of-arms. JUS IMMUNITATI8

In civil law. The law of immunity or exemption from the burden of public office. Dig. 50. 6.

An unknown law.

An indivisible right.

A right against a person; a right which gives its possessor a power to oblige another person to give or procure, to do or not to do, something. Rapalje & L, JUS IN RE (Lat.) A righ

A right in a thing. See Jura in re .

A right in the property of another.

A right in a thing clings to the bones of the usufructuary. See Usufructuary .

A right in thething cleaves to the person of the usufructuary.

The right of enjoyment which is incident to full ownership or property, and is often used to denote the full ownership or property itself. It is distinguished from jus in re aliena

The rights of a Roman colony.

In Roman Law. A rural servitude giving to a person the right to pass over an adjoining field, on foot or horseback.

Grot, de Jur. B., 1. 2, c. 13, § 10. The form of taking an oath differs in language, agrees in meaning; for it ought to have this sense: that the Deity is invoked.

The form of an oath differs in wording, but agrees in the thing itself; for it ought to have this meaning, that God is invoked.

An oath.

See Jusjurandum .

An oath made between other parties ought neither to harm nor profit.

Ain oath made between others ought neither to hurt nor profit. 4 Inst. 279.

In Roman law. The right of Latium or of the Latins. The principal privilege of the Latins seems to have been th« use of their own laws, and their not being subject to the edicts of

In Roman law. A rule of law applicable to magistrates in Latium. It was either majus Latium or minus Latium,—the majus Latium raising to the dignity of Roman citizen not only the m

A legal right.

A body of laws drawn up by Sextus Ælius, and consisting of three parts, wherein were explained, respectively: (1) The laws of the Twelve Tables; (2) the interpretation of and decis

In Roman Law. The privilege conferred upon a woman who had three or four children. In order that she should be able to take all the property given her by will, she must have had th

The right of a husband.

A mere right, i. e., without possession.

The law of nature. See "Jus Naturale."

Natural law; the rule and dictate of right reason, showing the moral deformity or moral necessity there is in any act according to its suitableness to a reasonable nature. Grotius

Natural law is that which has the same power among mankind.

The law of nature. See Jus Naturale.

The right of navigation.

NEC frangi potentia, nee adulterari pecunia potest; quod si non modo oppressum, sed desertum aut negligentia asservatum fuerit, nihil est quod quisquam se habere cerium, aut a patr

The right of death, which the Romans possessed in respect to their children.

TUTE NON PAREtur. It is safe not to obey him who has no right. Hob. 1. 46. JU8 NON PATITUR UT IDEM BIS SOLvatur. Law does not suffer that the same thing be twice paid.

He is safely disobeyed who has no right.

Law does not suffer that the same thing be twice paid.

The law does not suffer the same thing to be paid twice.

In Roman Law. That portion of the jus pu Micum which regulated the duties of magistrates. Non-sacred law; that which dealt with the duties of civil magistrates, the preservation of

The unwritten law. 1 Bl. Comm. 64.

In Roman law, the right of subrogation, that is, the right of succeeding to the lien and priority of an elder creditor on tendering or paying into court the amount due to him. See

An urban servitude in the Roman Law, the owner of which had the right of supporting and building ujh on the house wall of another.

The civil law of Papirius. The title of the earliest collection of Roman leges curiatae, said to have been made in the time of Tarquin, the last of the Mngs, by a pontifex maximus

(Lat.) In civil and old English law. The right of pasturing cattle. Bract, fol. 53b, 222. JUS PATRONATUS (Lat.) In ecclesiastical law. A commission from the bishop, directed usuall

The right of patronage.

The right of persons. See Jura personarum .

Rights of persons. Those rights which, in the civil law, belong to persons ag such, or in their ditferent characters and relations; as parents and children, masters and servants, e

In Roman law, the right of rescission or revocation of an executory contract on failure of the other party to fulfill his part of the agreement. See Mackeld. Rom. Law, § 444.

In maritime law. The right of port or harbor.

The right of possession.

The right of possess^ ing, which is the legal consequence of ownership. It is to be distinguished from the jus possessionis (q. vj^ which is a right to possess which may exist with

The ordinance of Congress is in truth a new regulation of the jus post liminii, and limits it to a recapture within twenty-four hours, and therefore can only relate to the subjects

In civil law. A present or vested right; a right already completely acquired. Mackeld. Civ. Law, p. 174, § 183.

In civil law. The discretion of the praetor, as distinct from the leges, or standing laws. 3 Bl. Comm. 49. That kind of law which the praetors introduced for the purpose of aiding,

A right in courtesy. See 2 Bl. Comm. 328.

In the civil law. A present or vested right; a right already completely acquired. Mackeld. Rom. Law, § 191.

The right of a patron of presentation to a benefice. See 3 Bl. Comm. 246.

The right of presentation.

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 an

The servitude of projecting one’s building over his neighbor’s land.

The right of property, as distinguished from the jus possessionis, or right of possession. Bracton, fol. 3. Called by Bracton "jus merum," the mere right. Id.; 2 Bl. Comm. 197; 3 B

Same as Jus projiciendi.

The right of preemption of a landlord in case the tenant wishes to dispose of his rights as a perpetual lessee. Sohm, Inst Rom. L. § 67. Pactum protimeseos was the right of pre-emp

A franchise conferred upon provincials much more limited than that conferred upon the people of Italy. It has been described as "equivalent to the jua italicum minus the freedom fr

In the civil law. The discretion of the prætor, as distinct from the leges or standing laws. 3 Bl. Comm. 49. That kind of law which the prætors introduced for the purpose of aiding

the power to preserve and regulate navigation

Co. Litt. 185. Publlc and private law is that which is collected from natural principles, either of nations or in states; and that which in the civil law is called "jus," in the la

Law, both public and private, is that which is collected from natural precepts either of nations or states and that which in the written law is called “jus,” in the law of England

A public right cannot be changed by the agreements of private parties.

The right of demanding.

The old law of Rome, that was applicable originally to patricians only, and, under the Twelve Tables, to the entire Roman people, was so called, in contradistinction to the fus pra