Legal Term Dictionary

Strict law; law interpreted without any modification, and in its utmost rigor. Jns supervenient anctori aooreseit successor!. A right growing to a possessor accrues to the successor. Halk. Lat. Max. 76.

Strict law; law interpreted without any modification, and in its utmost rigor. Jns supervenient anctori aooreseit successor!. A right growing to a possessor accrues to the successor. Halk. Lat. Max. 76. Less...

The right of a third party. A tenant, bailee, etc., who pleads that the title is in some person other than his landlord, .bailor, etc., is said to set up a jus tertii. Jus testamentorum pertinet ordinario. T. B. 4 Hen. VII., 136. The right of testaments, belong* to. the More...

The right of a third party. A tenant, bailee, etc., who pleads that the title is in some person other than his landlord, .bailor, etc., is said to set up a jus tertii. Jus testamentorum pertinet ordinario. T. B. 4 Hen. VII., 136. The right of testaments, belong* to. the ordinary. Less...

In Roman law. A name applied to the Roman law of wills,o in the time of Justinian, on account of Its' threefold derivation, viz., from the pra>J torian edict, from the civil law, and from the Imperial constitutions. Maine, Anc. Law, 207. Jns triplex est,-proprietatis, posses* sionis, et possibiUtatis. Right More...

In Roman law. A name applied to the Roman law of wills,o in the time of Justinian, on account of Its' threefold derivation, viz., from the pra>J torian edict, from the civil law, and from the Imperial constitutions. Maine, Anc. Law, 207. Jns triplex est,-proprietatis, posses* sionis, et possibiUtatis. Right is threefold,-of property, of possession, and of possibility. Less...

In Roman., law. A right or privilege allowed to the parent of three or more children. 2 Kent4 Comm. 85; 2 BL Comm. 247. These privi-' leges were an exemption from the trouble of. guardianship, priority in bearing offices, and *o a treble proportion of corn. Adams, Rom.; Ant. (Am. More...

In Roman., law. A right or privilege allowed to the parent of three or more children. 2 Kent4 Comm. 85; 2 BL Comm. 247. These privi-' leges were an exemption from the trouble of. guardianship, priority in bearing offices, and *o a treble proportion of corn. Adams, Rom.; Ant. (Am. Ed.) 227.. Less...

The right to use property without destroying its substance. It is employed in contradistinction to the jus abutendi. 3 Toullier, no. 86.

The right to use property without destroying its substance. It is employed in contradistinction to the jus abutendi. 3 Toullier, no. 86. Less...

The right of hunting and fishing. Jns vendit quod usns approbavit. El- lesm. Postn. 85. The law dispenses what use. has approved.

The right of hunting and fishing. Jns vendit quod usns approbavit. El- lesm. Postn. 85. The law dispenses what use. has approved. Less...

Lat. An oatb. J us jurandum inter alios factum nee noeere nee prodesse debet. An oath made between others ought neither to hurt nor profit. 4 Inst. 279.

Lat. An oatb. J us jurandum inter alios factum nee noeere nee prodesse debet. An oath made between others ought neither to hurt nor profit. 4 Inst. 279. Less...

Right; in accordance with law and justice. "The words 'just' and 'justly* do not always mean 'just' and 'justly* in a moral sense, but they not unfrequently, in their connection with other words in a sentence, bear a very different signification. It is evident, however, that the word 'lust' in More...

Right; in accordance with law and justice. "The words 'just' and 'justly* do not always mean 'just' and 'justly* in a moral sense, but they not unfrequently, in their connection with other words in a sentence, bear a very different signification. It is evident, however, that the word 'lust' in the statute [requiring an affidavit for an attachment to state that plaintiff's claim is just] means 'just' in a moral sense; and from its isolation, being made a separate subdivision of the section, it is intend-, ed to mean 'morally just' in the most emphatic terms. The claim must be morally just, as well as legally just, in order to entitle a party to an attachment." Robinson v. Burton, 5 Kan. * 300. . -Just cause. Legitimate cause; legal or lawful ground for action; such reasons as will suffice in law to justify the action taken. State v. Baker, 112 La. 801. 36 South. 703; Claiborne v. Railroad Co., 46 W. Va. 371, 33 S. E. 265.-Just compensation. As used in the constitutional provision that private property shall not be taken for public use without "just compensation," this phrase means a full and fair equivalent for the loss sustained by the taking for public use. It may be more or it may be less than the mere money value of the property actually taken. The exercise of tbe power being necessary for the public good, and all property being held subject to its exercise when and as the public good requires it it would be unjust to the public that it should be required to pay the owner more than a fair indemnity for the loss he sustains by the appropriation of his property for the general good. On the other hand, it would be equally unjust to the owner if he should receive less than a fair indemnity for such loss. To arrive at this fair indemnity, the interests of the public and of the owner, and all the circumstances of the particular appropriation, should be taken into consideration. Lewis. Em. Dom. ? 462. And see Butler Hard Rubber Co. v. Newark, 61 N. J. Law, 32, 40 Atl. 224: Trinity College v. Hartford, 32 Conn. 452; Bauman v. Ross, 167 U. S. 548, 17 Sup. Ct. 966, 42 L. Ed. 270; Putnam v. Douglas County, 6 Or. 332, 25 Am. Rep. 527; Laflin v. Railroad Co. (C. C.) 33 Fed. 417; Newman v. Metropolitan El. R. Co., 118 N. Y. 623, 23 N. E. 901, 7 L. R. A. 289; Monongahela Nav. Co. v. U. S., 148 U. S. 312> 13 Sup. Ct. 622, 37 L. Ed. 463; Railway Co. v. Stickney, 150 111. 362, 37 N. Bl 1098, 26 L. R. A. 773; Chase v. Portland, 86 Me. 367, 29 Atl. 1104; Spring Valley Waterworks v. Drinkhouae, 92 Cal. 536, 28 Pac. 683.-Just debts. As used in a will or a statute, this term means legal, valid, and incontestable obligations, not including such as are barred by the statute of limitations or voidable at the election of the party. See Burke v. Jones, 2 Ves. & B. 275; Martin v. Gage, 9 N. Y. 401: Peck v. Botsford, 7 Conn. 176. 18 Am. Dec. 92; Collamore v. Wilder, 19 Kan. 82; Smith v. Mayo, 9 Mass. 63, 6 Am. Dec. 28; People v. Tax Com'rs, 99 N. Y. 154, 1 N. E. 401.-Just title. By the term "just title," in cases of prescription, we do not understand that which the possessor may have derived from the true owner, for then no true prescription would be necessary, but a title which the possessor may have received from any person whom he honestly believed to be the real owner, provided the title were such as to transfer the ownership of the property. Civ. Code La. art. 3484; Davis v. Gaines, 104 U. S. 400. 26 L. Ed. 757: Sunol v. Hepburn, 1 Cal. 254Kennedy v. Townslev. 16 Ala. 248.- Just value. In taxation, the fair, honest, and reasonable value of property, without exaggeration or depreciation: its actual market value. State v. Smith, 158 Ind. 543, 63 N. E. 214, 63 L. R. A. 116; Winnipiseogee Lake, etc, Co. v. Gilford, 67 N. H. 514, 35 Atl. 945. Less...

In old English law. A certain measure of liquor, being as much as was sufficient to drink at once. Mon. Angl. t 1* c. 149.

In old English law. A certain measure of liquor, being as much as was sufficient to drink at once. Mon. Angl. t 1* c. 149. Less...

In the civil law. A just cause; a lawful ground; a legal transaction of some kind. Mackeld. Rom. Law, " 283.

In the civil law. A just cause; a lawful ground; a legal transaction of some kind. Mackeld. Rom. Law, " 283. Less...