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  • JUS DISPONENDI
    The right of disposing. An expression used either generally to signify the right of alienation, as when we speak of depriving a married woman of the jus disponendi over her separate estate, or specially In the law relating to sales of goods, where it is often a question whether the More...
  • JUS DIVIDENDI
    The right of disposing of realty by will. Du Cange.
  • JUS DUPLICATUM
    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...
  • JUS FALCANDI
    In old English law. The right of mowing or cutting. Fleta, lib. 4, c. 27, s 1.
  • JUS FECIALE
    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.
  • JUS FIDUCIARIUM
    In the civil law. A right,.in trust; as distinguished from jus legitimum, a legal right 2 Bl. Comm. 328.
  • JUS FLAVIANUM
    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.
  • JUS FLUMINUM
    In the civil law. The right to the use of rivers. Locc. de Jure Mar. lib. 1, c. 6.
  • JUS FODIENDI
    In the civil and old English law. A right of digging on another's land. Inst 2, 3, 2; Bract fol. 222.
  • JUS FUTURUM
    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...
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