Category: J

Lat. In old English law. It lies in the mouth. Fleta, lib. 5, c. 5,

In old English law. A door-keeper. Fleta, lib. 2, c. 24. In modern law. A janitor is understood to lie a person employed to take charge of rooms or buildings, to see

One who buys and sells goods for others; one who buys or sells on the stock exchange; a dealer in stocks, shares, or securities.

In English law. Regrators of yarn. 8 Hen. VI. c. 5.

Lat. Ill the civil law. The ordinary judiccs appointed by the pnetor to try causes.

To abscond, withdraw, or secrete one’s self, in violation of the obligation of a bail-bond. The expression is colloquial, and is applied only to the act of the principal.

In English law. Officers in the nature of aldermeu, sworn for the gov- ernment of many corporations. The twelve assistants of the baililf in Jersey are called “jurats.”

A juror: one who is impaneled on a jury.

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

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

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

The right of possession.

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,

Rank or office of a justice.

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

In old English law. Small money.

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.