Legal Term Dictionary

A double right; the right of possession united with the right of property; otherwise called "droit-droit." 2 Bl. Comm. 199. Jus est ars boni et sequi. Law is the science of what is good and just. Dig. 1, 1, 1, 1; Bract fol. 2ft. Jns est norma recti; et quloquid More...

A double right; the right of possession united with the right of property; otherwise called "droit-droit." 2 Bl. Comm. 199. Jus est ars boni et sequi. Law is the science of what is good and just. Dig. 1, 1, 1, 1; Bract fol. 2ft. Jns est norma recti; et quloquid est oontra normam recti est injuria. Law is a rule of right; and whatever is contrary to the rule of right is an injury. 3 Bulst 313. Jus et fraus nunquam cohabitant. Right and fraud never dwell together. 10 Coke, 45a. Applied to the title of a statute; Id.; Best Ev. p. 250, ? 205. Jus ex injuria non oritur. A right does .(or can) not rise out of a wrong. Broom* Max. 738, note; 4 Bing. 639. Less...

In old English law. The right of mowing or cutting. Fleta, lib. 4, c. 27, s 1.

In old English law. The right of mowing or cutting. Fleta, lib. 4, c. 27, s 1. Less...

In Roman law. The law of arms, or of heralds. A rudimentary species of international law founded on the rites and religious ceremonies of the different peoples.

In Roman law. The law of arms, or of heralds. A rudimentary species of international law founded on the rites and religious ceremonies of the different peoples. Less...

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

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

In old Roman law. A body of laws drawn up by Cnelus Flavius, a clerk of Appius Claudius, from the materials to which he had access. It was a popularization of the laws. Mackeld. Rom. Law, { 39.

In old Roman law. A body of laws drawn up by Cnelus Flavius, a clerk of Appius Claudius, from the materials to which he had access. It was a popularization of the laws. Mackeld. Rom. Law, { 39. Less...

In the civil law. The right to the use of rivers. Locc. de Jure Mar. lib. 1, c. 6.

In the civil law. The right to the use of rivers. Locc. de Jure Mar. lib. 1, c. 6. Less...

In the civil and old English law. A right of digging on another's land. Inst 2, 3, 2; Bract fol. 222.

In the civil and old English law. A right of digging on another's land. Inst 2, 3, 2; Bract fol. 222. Less...

In the civil law. A future right; an inchoate, incipient, or expectant right, not yet fully vested. It may be either "jus delatum" when the subsequent acquisition or vesting of it depends merely on the will of the person In whom it is to vest or "jus nondum delatum" when More...

In the civil law. A future right; an inchoate, incipient, or expectant right, not yet fully vested. It may be either "jus delatum" when the subsequent acquisition or vesting of it depends merely on the will of the person In whom it is to vest or "jus nondum delatum" when it depends on the future occurrence of other circumstances or conditions. Mackeld. Rom. Law, { 191. Less...

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 tbe law which all nations use. Inst 1, 2, 1; Dig. 1, 1, 9; 1 Bl. Comm. 43; 1 Kent Comm. More...

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 tbe law which all nations use. Inst 1, 2, 1; Dig. 1, 1, 9; 1 Bl. Comm. 43; 1 Kent Comm. 7; Mackeld. Rom. Law, $ 125. Although this phrase had a meaning in the Roman law which may be rendered by our expression "law of nations," it must not be understood as equivalent to what we now call "international law." its scope being much wider. It was originally a system of law, or more E roperly equity, gathered by the early Roman wyers and magistrates from the common ingredients in the customs of the old Italian tribes,-those being the nations, gentes, whom they had opportunities of observing,-to be used in cases where the jus civile did not apply; that is, in cases between foreigners or between a Roman citizen and a foreigner. The principle upon which they proceeded was that any rule of law which was common to all the nations they knew of must be intrinsically consonant to right reason, and therefore fundamentally valid and just. From this it was an easy transition to the converse principle, viz., that any rule which instinctively commended itself to their sense of justice and reason must be a part of the jus gentium. And so the latter term came eventually to be about synonymous with "equity," (as tbe Romans understood it,) or the system of praetorian law. Modern jurists frequently employ the term "jus gentium privatum" to denote private international law, or that subject which is otherwise styled the "conflict of laws;" and "jus gentium publicum" for public international law, or the system of rules governing the intercourse of nations with each other as persons. Less...

The right of the sword; the executory power of the law; the right power, or prerogative of punishing for crime. 4 Bl. Comm. 177.

The right of the sword; the executory power of the law; the right power, or prerogative of punishing for crime. 4 Bl. Comm. 177. Less...