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JUS AESNECIAE
The right of primogeniture, (q. v.)

The right of primogeniture, (q. v.) Less...
JUS ALBINATUS
The droit d'aubaine, (q. v.) See ALBINATUS Jus.

The droit d'aubaine, (q. v.) See ALBINATUS Jus. Less...
JUS ANGLORUM
The laws and customs of the West Saxons, In the time of the Heptarchy, by which the people were for a long time governed, and which were preferred before all others. Wharton. .

The laws and customs of the West Saxons, In the time of the Heptarchy, by which the people were for a long time governed, and which were preferred before all others. Wharton. . Less...
JUS AQUAEDUCTUS
In the civil law. The name of a servitude which gives to the owner of land the right to bring down water through or from the land of another.

In the civil law. The name of a servitude which gives to the owner of land the right to bring down water through or from the land of another. Less...
JUS BANCI
In old English law. The right of bench. The right or privilege of having an elevated and separate seat of judgment, anciently allowed only to the king's judges, who hence were said to administer high justice, (summam administrant justir tiam.) Blount

In old English law. The right of bench. The right or privilege of having an elevated and separate seat of judgment, anciently allowed only to the king's judges, who hence were said to administer high justice, (summam administrant justir tiam.) Blount Less...
JUS BELLI
The law of war. The law of nations as applied to a state of war, defining in particular the rights and duties of the belligerent powers themselves, and of neutral nations. The right of war; that which may be done without injustice with regard to an enemy! Gro. de Jure More...

The law of war. The law of nations as applied to a state of war, defining in particular the rights and duties of the belligerent powers themselves, and of neutral nations. The right of war; that which may be done without injustice with regard to an enemy! Gro. de Jure B. lib. 1, c. 1, ? 3. -Jus bellnm dicendi. The right of proclaiming war. Less...
JUS CANONICUM
The canon law.

The canon law. Less...
JUS CIVILE
Civil law. The system of law peculiar to one state or people. Inst 1, 2, 1. Particularly, in Roman law, the civil law of the Roman people, as distinguished from the jus gentium. The term is also applied to the body of law called, emphatically, the "civil law." The jus More...

Civil law. The system of law peculiar to one state or people. Inst 1, 2, 1. Particularly, in Roman law, the civil law of the Roman people, as distinguished from the jus gentium. The term is also applied to the body of law called, emphatically, the "civil law." The jus civile and the jus gentium are distinguished in this way. All people ruled by statutes and customs use a law partly peculiar to themselves, partly common to all men. The law each people has settled for itself is peculiar to the state itself, and is called "jus civile,' as being peculiar to that very state. The law, again, that natural reason has settled among all men,-the law that is guarded among all peoples quite alike,-is called the "jus gentium" and all nations use it as if law. The Roman people, therefore, usp a law that is partly peculiar to itself, partly common to all men. Hunter, Rom. Law, 38. But this is not the only, or even the general, use of the words. What the Roman jurists had chiefly .in view, when they spoke of "jus civile," was not local as opposed to cosmopolitan law, but the old law of the city as contrasted with the newer law introduced by the praetor, (jus prwtorium, jus honorarium.) Largely, no doubt, the jus gentium corresponds with the jus prwtorium; but the correspondence is not perfect. Id. 39. Jus civile est qnod sibi popnlns con* stitnit. The civil law is what a people establishes for Itself. Inst. 1, 2, 1; Jackson v. Jackson, 1 Johns. (N. Y.) 424, 426. Less...
JUS CIVITATUS
The right of citizenship; the freedom of the city of Rome. It differs from jus quiritinm, which comprehended all the privileges of a free native of Rome. The difference is much the same as between "denization" and "naturalization" with ns. Wharton.

The right of citizenship; the freedom of the city of Rome. It differs from jus quiritinm, which comprehended all the privileges of a free native of Rome. The difference is much the same as between "denization" and "naturalization" with ns. Wharton. Less...
JUS CLOACAE
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 of one's neighbor. Mackeld. Rom. Law, | 317.

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 of one's neighbor. Mackeld. Rom. Law, | 317. Less...

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