Category: J

In old English law. Jewels. This term was formerly more properly applied to those ornaments which women, al though married, call their own. When these jocalia are not suitable to her degree,

A workman hired by tlie day, or other given time. Hart v. Ald- ridge, 1 Cowp. 5G; Butler v. Clark, 46 Ga. 408.

Lat. In the civil law. Select or selected judiccs or judges; those who were used in criminal causes, and between whom and modern jurors many points of resemblance have been noticed. 3

In old English law. The soil where rushes grow. Co. Litt 5a; Cowell.

Lat By right; in right; by the 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

Proper to be examined in courts of justice.

A gold coin worth 24s., so called from James I., who was king when it was struck. Enc. Loud.

Yeomen retained by the sheriff to escort the judge of assize.

A little manor or farm. Cowell.

In English practice. The name of a writ (now obsolete) which might be sued out where a former writ had abated without the plaintiff’s fault. The length of time allowed for taking

Lat. In Roman law. Judicial proceedings; trials. Judicia publica, criminal trials. Dig. 48, 1. Judicia in curia regis non adnlhilen- tur, sed stent in robore suo quousque per crrorem ant attinctunx adnullentur.

United they aid. A portion of the maxim, “Qua: non valeant singula juncta juvant,” (q. v.,) frequently cited. 3 Man. & G. 99.

Lat. Relating to the courts or to the administration of justice; juridical ; lawful. Dies juridicus, a lawful day for the transaction of business in court; a day on which the courts

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