Category: J

In the civil law. A peculiar or Individual rule, differing from the jus commune, or common rule of rigfit, and established for some special reason. Mackeld. Bom. Law,

In old English law. A judge or justice. One of several persons learned in the law, who sat in the aula regis, and formed a kind of court of appeal in cases

A false boasting; a false claim; assertions repeated to the prejudice of another’s right. The species of defamation or disparagement of another’s title to real estate known at common law as “slander

In Scotch law. Jailer or gaoler. 1 I’ltc. Criin. Tr. pt. 1, p. 33.

In old English law. A game of hazard. Keg. Orig. 200.

Lat. In the civil law. To order, direct, or command. Calvin. The word jubeo, (I order.) iu a will, was called a “word of direction.” as distinguished from “precatory words.” Cod. 6,

Belonging to the office of a judge; as judicial authority. Relating to or connected with the administration of justice; as a judicial officer. Having the character of judgment or formal legal procedure;

In old English law. To join the duelluin; to engage iu the combat. Fleta, lib. 1, c. 21,

Lat Of right; of law.

The right of renunciation; the right of an heir, under the Roman law, to renounce or decline the inheritance, as, for example, where his acceptance, in consequence of the necessity of paying

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. Comm. 434.

In the civil and old English law. A right of digging on another’s land. Inst 2, 3, 2; Bract, fol. 222

A legal right In the civil law. A right which was enforceable in the ordinary course of law. 2 Bl. Comm. 328.

In the civil law. The discretion of the prator, as distinct from the leges, or standing laws. 3 Bl. Comm. 49. That kind of law which the pr;etors introduced for the purpose

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 lie offered for sale in

In English law. Justices in eyre, who formerly went from county to county to administer justice. They were so called to distinguish tliem from justices residing at Westminister, who were called “justicii

Lost by default; tossed away. Cowell.

Summary justice inflicted upon a marauder or felon without a regular trial, equivalent to “lynch law.” So called from a Scotch town, near the English border, where raiders and cattle lifters wore

In old English practice. A divided game, risk, or hazard. An arrangement which the parties to a suit were anciently sometimes allowed to make by mutual agreement upon a certain hazard, as

In Spanish law. The privilege of a public officer to be retired, on account of infirmity or disability, retaining the rank and pay of his office (or part of the same) after