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  • 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.
  • 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.
  • JUS COMMUNE
    In the oiyil law. Common right; the common and natural rule of right, as opposed to jus singulare, (q. v.) Mackeld. Rom. Law, ? 196. In English law. The common law, answering to the Saxon "folcright." 1 BL Comm. 67. Jns oonstitui oportet in his quse nt plurimum aooidnnt non More...
  • JUS CORONAE
    In English law. The right of the crown, or to the crown; the right of succession to the throne. 1 Bl. Comm. 191; 2 Steph. Comm. 434.
  • JUS CUDENDAE MONETAE
    In old English law. The right of coining money. 2 How. State Tr. 118.
  • JUS CURIALITATIS
    In English law. The right of curtesy. Spelman.
  • JUS DARE
    To give or to make the law; the function and prerogative of the legislative department
  • JUS DELIBERANDI
    In the civil law. The right of deliberating. A term granted by the proper officer at the request of him who is called to the inheritance, (the heir,) Within, which he has the right to investigate its condition and to consider whether he will accept or reject it Mackeld. Rom. More...
  • JUS DEVOLUTUM
    The right of the church of presenting a minister to a vacant parish, in case the patron shall neglect to exercise his right within the time limited by law.
  • JUS DICERE
    To declare the law; to say what the law is. The province of a court or judge. 2 Eden, 29; 3 P. Wms. 485;
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