Category: J

The official and authentic decision of a court of justice upon the re- spective rights and claims of the parties to an action or suit therein litigated and sub- mitted to its

In old English law. A watery place. Domesday; Cowell.

Lat. Plural of “jus.” Rights; laws. 1 Bl. Comm. 123. See Jus.

Pertaining or relating to jurisdiction; conferring jurisdiction ; showing or disclosing jurisdiction; defining or limiting jurisdiction; essential to jurisdiction.

The right of survivorship. The right of the survivor or survivors of two or more joint tenants to the tenancy or estate, upon the death of one or more of the joint

In English law. The right of curtesy. Spelman.

The law of nations. That law which natural reason has established among all men is equally observed among all nations, and is called the “law of nations,” as being the law which

In old English law. Mere or bare right; the mere right of property in lands, without either possession or even the right of possession. 2 Bl. Comm. 197; Bract, fol. 23.

The right of presentation.

The right of a third party. A tenant, bailee, etc., who pleads that the title is in some person other than his landlord, bailor, etc., is said to set up a jus

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