Law Dictionary

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

The law which governs corporatioris is the same which governs individuals. Foster v. Essex Bank, 16 Mass. 265, 8 Am. Dec. 135.

The law governing corporations is the same as that governing private persons.

A right to ask or recover; for example, in an obligation there is a binding of the obligor, and a jus quœsi-tum in the obligee, 1 Bell, Comm. 323.

INTRANDI, Etc. The right of recovering and entering upon land. JUS RERUM (Lat.). The right of things. Its principal object is to ascertain how far a person can have a permanent dom

In Scotch law. The right of a relict; the right or claim of a relict or widow to her share of her husband's estate, particularly the movables. 2 Kames, Eq. 340; 1 Forb. Inst. pt. 1

The right of a widow in her deceased husband's personal property.

The right of representing or standing in the place of another or of being represented by another.

The law of things. The law regulating the rights and powers of persens over things; how property la acquired, enjoyed, and transferred.

Law regards equity. Co. Litt. 24b; Broom, Leg. Max. (3d London Ed.) 143; 17 Q. B. 292.

In Roman Law. That portion of the public law which was concerned with matter’s relating to public worship and including the regulation of sacrifices and the appointment of priests.

This is the adoption of the rule of jus sanguinis in respect to citizenship, and that emphasizes the fact and time of birth as the basis of it. We think the words, 'the right of ci

In Roman Law. Written law. Inst. 1. 2, 3. All law that was actually committed to writing, whether it had originated by enactment or by custom, in contradistinction to such parts of

In civil law. A peculiar or individual rule, differing from the jus commune, or common rule of right, and established for some special reason. Mackeld. Civ. Law, p. 181, § 188.

The right of primogeniture, (q. v.)

the place of birth governs citizenship status except as modified by statute

A right of way over land by the public by uses merely for the purposes of recreation and instruction. It is usually limited to the cases of highways, parks, and squares. The public

In old European law. The law of staple; the right of staple A. right or privilege of certain towns of stopping imported merchandise, and compelling it to be offered for sale in the

In old European law. The law of staple; the right of staple; a fight or privilege of certain towns of stopping imported merchandise, and compelling it to be offered for sale in the

Strict law.

In Roman Law. The right of voting. This and the jus honorum (q. V.) were the public rights of the Roman citizen.

A right coming to the holder of an estate accrues to his successor.

only a title which is good upon its face, or not manifestly frivolous, not one which shall ultimately turn out to be valid.

In old English law. A certain measure of liquor, being as much as was sufficient to drink at once. Mon. Angl. t. 1, c. 149.

A just cause.

In appraising a stockholder's position in a merger as to justice and reasonableness, it is not the promise that a charter made to him but the current worth of that promise that gov

“At the time when,” was the construction of these words in a plea to justify the killing of a dog; Ir. C. L. 156.

Legitimate cause ; legal or lawful ground for action; such reasons as will suffice in law to justify the action taken. State v. Baker, 112 La. 801, 36 South. 703; Claiborne v. Rail

As used in the constitution, means a full and fair equivalent for the loss sustained by the taking for public use. It may be more, or it may be less, than the mere money value of t

the full monetary equivalent of the property taken.

The provision found in the 5th Amendment to the Federal Constitution and in the Constitutions of the several states, for just compensation for the property taken, is merely a limit

The clause prohibiting taking private property for public use without just compensation has no reference to taxation … The restriction is upon the right of eminent domain, not upon

The requirement of the 5th Amendment is satisfied when the owner is paid for what is taken from him. The question is what has the owner lost, and not what has the taker gained.

those damages arising from the delay occasioned by the proceedings in error or appeal, which are properly a legal damage to the party delayed.

As used in a will or a statute, this term means legal, valid, and incontestable obligations, not including such as are barred by the statute of limitations or voidable at the elect

depends on a federal court's answers to judicially unanswerable questions about the proper way to apply the State's traditional districting principles, or about the groupwide prefe

The right of a third party. A tenant, bailee, etc., who pleads that the title is in some person other than hls landlord, ballor, etc., is said to set up a jus tertii.

The right or Interest of a third party. JUS TESTAMENTORUM PERTINET ordinario. Y. B. 4 Hen. VII., 13b. The right of testaments belongs to the ordinary.

The right of testaments belongs to the ordinary.

The constant and perpetual ity of our actions and our will to the law. Tou Uier, Dr. Civ. tit. prel. note 5. In the most extensive sense of the word, it differs little from "virtue

DEPARTMENT OF. The act of September 24, 1789 (1 Stat L. 92), organized the judicial business of the United States, made provision for an attorney-general, and charged him with the

FLEEING FROM. In order to come within the exception of “fleeing from Justice” in R. S. 1045, it is sufficient that there is a flight with the intention of avoiding prosecution whet

In Scotch law. The circuits through the kingdom made for the distribution of justice. Ersk. Inst. 1. 3. 25.

From the old French u ord "eire," i. e., a journey. Those justices who in ancient times were sent by commission into various counties, to hear more especially such causes as were t

An old general term for all things appertaining to justice.

while the right to a 'public trial' is explicitly guaranteed by the Sixth Amendment only for 'criminal prosecutions,' that provision is a reflection of the notion, deeply rooted in

In American law. A judicial officer of inferior rank holding a court not of record, and having (usually) civil jurisdiction of a limited nature, for the trial of minor cases, to an

The term “justice of the United States” includes the Chief Justice of the United States and the associate justices of the Supreme Court.

The old form of justice. Blount

over idiots, lunajurisdiction of the Lord and commissions uncharities; the jurisdicrecords • in England. The are the Chief Justice of Chief Justice of the Cotiithe Vice-Chancellors

In American law. Inferior tribunals, with limited jurisdiction, both civil and criminal. There are courts so called in the states of Massachusetts and New Hampshire, and probably o

See Court of Justice Seat.

Rank or office of A justice.

Certain judges established, if not first appointed, A. D. 1176, 22 Hen. II. England was divided into certain circuits, and three justices in eyre — or "justices itinerant," as they

A judgment rendered by a justice of the peace. See 11 N. C. 283.

The title given to the ordinary j'udges of the English court of appeal. The first of such ordinary judges are the two former lords justices of appeal in chancery, and one other jud

These justices, or, as they are sometimes called, "justices of nisi prius," are judges of the superior English courts, who go on circuit into the various counties of England and Wa

Those justices who are sent with a commission to hear and determine all causes appertaining to persons, who, for any offense, have been cast into gaol. Part of their authority was

In old English law. Justices appointed to try the cases of laboring men who would not work for the wages prescribed by the statute of laborers. 23 Edw. III.

In English law. This title is now usually coupled with that of "justices of assize"; the judges of the superior courts acting on their circuits in both these capacities. 8 Bl. Comm

judges of the oourte at /tvestminster, and who went twice in every year to every county of the kingdom (except London and Middlesex), and, at what was usually called the "assizes,"

The justices of the court of common bench or common pleas.

In old English law. Officers who had jurisdiction over all offenses committed within the j Eorest against vert or venison. The court wherein these justices sat and determined such

Hundredors; lords of the hundreds; they who had the jurisdiction of hundreds, and held the hundred courts.

Justices appointed by Richard I. to carry into effect the laws and orders which he had made for regulating the money contracts of the Jews. JUSTICES OF THE PAVILION {justiciarii pa