Category: J

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

In old English and feudal law. Leg-armor. Blount.

A term descriptive of goods which, by the act of the owner, have been voluntarily cast overboard from a vessel, in a storm or other emergency, to lighten the ship. 1 C.

In old English law. Land where rushes grow. Co. Litt. 5a.

A judgment against a particular person, as distinguished from a judgment against a thing or a right or status. The former class of judgments are conclusive only upon parties and privies; the

In French law. A judge.

1. Pertaining to natural or positive right, or to the doctrines of rights and obligations; as “jural relations.” 2. Of or pertaining to jurisprudence; juristic ; juridical. 3. Recognized or sanctioned by

Lat. A student of the civil law.

A term of the civil law, meaning “a right to a thing;” that is, a right exercisable by one person over a particular article of property in virtue of a contract or

To give or to make the law; the function and prerogative of the legisla- tive department

The right of the sword; the executory power of the law; the right, power, or prerogative of punishing for crime. 4 Bl. Comm. 177.

The law of nature. See Jrs NATURAI.E.

Private law; the law regulating the rights, conduct, and affairs of individuals, as distinguished from “public” law, which relates to the constitution and functions of government and the administration of criminal justice.

In Roman law. A name applied to the Roman law of wills, in the time of Justinian, on account of its threefold derivation, viz., from the pra:- torian edict, from the civil

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

In Hindu law. Total amount; collection; assembly. The total of a territorial assignment.

The act of throwing overboard from a vessel part of the cargo, in case of extreme danger, to lighten the ship. The same name is also given to the thing or things

In old English law. As much land as could be plowed in one day. Spelman.

A judgment in rem is an adjudication, pronounced upon the status of some particular subject-matter, by a tribunal having competent authority for that purpose. It differs from a judgment in personam, in

An acre. Co. Litt. 5b. As much as a yoke (jugurn) of oxen could plow in one day.