Law Dictionary

The right of primogeniture.

The right of the king by confiscation or escheat to the property of a deceased foreigner unless he had a peculiar exemption. This prerogative was abolished in 1790. 1 Bla. Com. 372

See Anoabia; Anoabt, Right or.

The right to exact service of a vassal.

The laws and customs of the West Saxons, in the time of the Heptarchy, by which the people were for a long time governed, and which were preferred before all others. Wharton. JUS A

The servitude of conducting water over another’s land.

Same as Jus aquaeductus.

In the civil law. The name of a servitude which gives to the owner of land the right to bring down water through or from the land of another.

In old English law. 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, who hence were said

The right of bench, an elevated judge's seat.

The law of war; the law of nations as applied to a state of war, defining in particular the rights and duties of the belligerent powers themselves, and of neutral nations. The righ

The right to declare war.

The right to declare war.

The canon law. JUS CIVILE (Lat.) In Roman law. The private law, in contradistinction to the JUS CIVILE EST QUOD SIBI POPULUS constituit. The civil law is what a people establishes

The civil law.

The civil law is that which a people establishes for itself. See 1 Johns. (N. Y.) 424.

The right of citizenship.

The right of citizenship; the freedom of the city of Rome. It differs from jus quiritium, which comprehended all the privileges of a free native of Rome. The difference is much the

In the civll law. The right of sewerage or drainage. An easement consisting in the right of having a sewer or of conducting surface water, through the house or over the ground of o

(Lat.) In civil law. The name of a servitude which requires the party who is subject to it to permit his neighbor to conduct the waters which fall on his grounds over those of the

In Civil Law. Common right; the common and natural rule of right, as opposed to jus singular e (q. v.). Mackeld. Civ. Law, § 196. In English Law. The common law, answering to the S

Law ought to be established in respect to those matters which occur most often, not those which occur unexpectedly.

Laws ought to be made with a view to those cases which happen most frequently, and not to those which are of rare or accidental occurrence. Dig. 1, 3, 3; Broom, Max. 43.

In English law. The right of the crown or to the crown; the right of succession to the throne. 1 Bl. Comm. 191; 2 Steph. Comin. 434.

The right of succession to the throne of Great Britain. JUS CURIALITATiS ANGLIiC. The right of curtesy. See Curtesy. JUS DARE (Lat). To enact or to make the law. Jus dare belongs t

In English law. The right of the crown, or, rather, to the crown; the right of succession to the throne. 1 Bl. Comm. 191; 2 Steph. Comm. 434.

In old English law. The right of coining money. 2 How. St. Tr. 118.

In old English law. The right of coining money. 2 How. State Tr. 118.

In English law. The right of curtesy. Spelman. JUS DARE (Lat.) To give or to make the law. Jus dare belongs to the legislature; jus dicere, to the judge. JUS DELIBERANDI (Lat.) The

To make law.

The right of deliberating.

ET NON TERRA. A right descends, not the land. Co. Litt. 345. JUS DICERE (Lat.) To declare the law. It is the province of the court jus dicere, to declare what the law is.

The right descends, not the land.

A phrase formerly used in Scotch ecclesiastical law to “designate the right which devolved on the presbytery to present a minister to a vacant parish or beneflee, in case the patro

NON JUS DARE. To declare the law, not to make it. 7 Term R. 561; Broom, Leg. Max. (3d London Ed.) 140. JUS DISPONENDI (Lat.) The right to dispose of a thing.

To declare the law, not to make the law. See 10 Johns. (N. Y.) 566.

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.