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  • JUS NAVIGANDI
    The right of navigating or navigation; the right of commerce by snips or by sea. Locc. de Jure Mar. lib. 1, c 8.
  • JUS NECIS
    In Roman law. The right of death, or of putting to death. A right which a father anciently had over his children. Jns non habenti tnte non parctur. One who has no right cannot be safely obey ed. Hob. 146. Jns non patitur ut idem bis solvatur. Law does not More...
  • JUS NON SCRIPTUM
    The unwritten law. 1 Bl. Comm. 64.
  • JUS OFFERENDI
    In Roman law, the right of subrogation, that is, the right of succeeding to the lien and priority of an elder creditor on tendering or paying into court the amount due to him. See Mackeld. Rom. Law, ? 355.
  • JUS FAPIRIANUM
    The civil law of Paplrius. The title of the earliest collection of Roman leges curiatas, said to have been made in the time of Tarquin, the last of the kings, by a pontifex maximus of the name of Sextus or Publius Paplrius. Very few fragments of this collection now remain, More...
  • JUS PASCENDI
    In the civil and old English law. The right of pasturing cattle. Inst. 2, 3, 2; Bract, fols. 53b, 222.
  • JUS PATRONATUS
    In English ecclesiastical law. The right of patronage; the right of presenting a clerk to a benefice. Blount. A commission from the bishop, where two presentations are offered upon the same avoidance, directed usually to his chancellor and others of competent learning, who are to summon a jury of six More...
  • JUS PERSONARUM
    Rights of persons. Those rights which, in the civil law belong to persons as such, or in their different characters and relations; as parents and children, masters and servants, etc.
  • JUS PENITENDI
    In Roman law, the right of rescission or revocation of an executory contract on failure of the other party to fulfill his part of the agreement. See Mackeld; Rom. Law, I 444.
  • JUS PORTUS
    In maritime law. The right of port or harbor.
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