Category: J

Lat Of right; of law.

One member of a jury of matrons, (q. v.)

In the civil 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

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

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

n the civil law. The right of postliminy; the right or claim of a person who had been restored to the possession of a thing, or to a former condition. to be

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

An old general term for all things appertaining to justice.

Lat. In the civil law. A suspension or intermission of the administration of justice in courts; vacation time. Calvin.

A gaol; a prison; a building designated by law, or regularly used, for the confinement of persons held in lawful custody. State v. Bryan, 89 N. C. 034. See GAOL.

Danger; hazard; perilJeopardy is the danger of conviction and punishment which the defendant in a crim- inal action incurs when a valid indictment has been found, and a petit jury has been

United; combined; undivided; done by or against two or more unitedly; shared by or between two or more. A “joint” bond, note, or other obligation is one in which the obligors or

Lat. In Roman law. A private person appointed by tlie pra’tor, with the consent of the parties, to try and decide a cause or action commenced before him. He received from the

The name commonly given to the act of congress of September 24, 1789, (1 St. at Large, 73,) by which the system of federal courts was organized, and their powers and jurisdiction

In medical jurisprudence. This plant is commonly called “savin.”

A jurist; a person skilled in the science of law, particularly of international or public law.

Lat In Roman law. Right; justice ; law; the whole body of law; also a right. The term is used in two meanings: 1. “Jus” means “law,” considered in the abstract; that

In the civil law. Common right; the common and natural rule of right, as opposed to jus singulare, (q. v.) Mackeld. Rom. Law,

In the civil law. The right to the use of rivers. Locc. de Jure Mar. lib. 1, c. 6.

In Roman law. A rule of law applicable to magistrates in Latium. It was either majus Latium or minus Latium,