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JUS CIVITATUS

The right of citizenship ; the freedom of the city of Rome. It differs from jus quiritium, which comprehended all the privileges of a free native of Rome. The difference is much

JUS FIDUCIARIUM

In the civil law. A right in trust; as distinguished from jus Icgitimum, a legal right. 2 Bl. Comm. 328.

JUS INDIVIDUUM

An individual or indivisible right; a right incapable of division. 36 Eng. Law & Eq. 25.

JUS RERUM

The law of things. The law regulating the rights and powers of persons over things; how property is acquired, enjoyed, and transferred. Jus respicit aequitatem. Law regards equity. Co. Litt. 246; Broom,

JACK

A kind of defensive coat-armor worn by horsemen in war; not made of solid iron, but of many plates fastened together. Some tenants were bound by their tenure to find it upon

JAQUES

In old English law. Small money.

JOCALIA

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,

JOURNEYMAN

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

JUDICES SELECTI

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

JUNCARIA

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

JURE

Lat By right; in right; by the law.

JUS CLOAC-ffi

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

JUS FLAVIANUM

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

JUS LATH

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

JUS POSTLIMINII

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

JUS SCRIPTUM

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

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