Jus

I. Right; justice; law. v. Jura, Jure, Juris. Jus abutendi (the right to abuse): the right to use as one Kkes, absolute ownership. Jus accrescendi: the right of survivorship [as in joint property, on the death of one owner, when the other has the whole]. Jus accrescendi inter mercatores, pro bene&cio commercii, locum non habet: for the benefit of commerce, the right of survivorship has no existence among merchants. Jus accrescendi praefertur oneribus: the right of survivorship is preferred to incumbrances, or ultimo voluntati, to the last will. Jus ad rem: a right to a thing (in the civil law); a personal right, a right founded on contract. A right to the possession of a thing (in the canon law); an inchoate or imperfect right. A right to a thing (in the common law) as distinguished from jus in re, a right without possession. Jus aesneciae: the right of primogeniture. Jus angarise: v.