Category: J

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,

In the civil law. A present or vested right; a right already completely acquired. Mackeld. Rom. Law,

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