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  • JUSTITIA
    Lat. Justice. A jurisdiction, or the office of a judge. -Jnstitia piepoudrous. Speedy justice. Bract. 3336. Justitia debet esse libera, quia nihil iniquius veuali jnstitia; plena, quia jnstitia non debet elaudioare; et eeleris, quia dilatio est quiedam negatio. Justice ought to be free, because nothing is more iniquitous than venal More...
  • JUSTITIUM
    Lat. In the civil law. A suspension or intermission of the administration of justice in courts; vacation time. Calvin.
  • JUSTIZA
    In Spanish law. The name anciently given to a high judicial magistrate, or supreme judge, who was the ultimate interpreter, of the laws, and possessed other high powers.
  • JUSTS, OR JOUSTS
    Exercises between martial men and persons of honor, with spears, on horseback; different from tourna¬ment a, which were military exercises between many men in troops. 24 Hen. VIII. c. 13. Justum non est aliquem antenatnm mortuum faeere bastardnm, qui pro tota vita sua pro legitimo babetnr. It .is not just More...
  • JUXTA
    Lat. Near; following; according to. —Junta oonventionem. According to the covenant. Fleta, lib. 4, c. 16, § 6.—Junta formam statuti. According to the form of the statute.—Junta ratam. At or after the rate. Dyer. S2 Junta tenorem seqnentem. According to the tenor following. 2 Saik. 417. A phrase used in More...
  • JUZGADO
    In Spanish law. The judiciary; the body of judges; the Judges who concur In a decree.
  • K. B.
    An abbreviation for "King's Bench," (g. v.)
  • K. C.
    An abbreviation for "King's Counsel."
  • KABANI
    A person who, in oriental states, supplies the place of our notary public. All obligations, to be valid, are drawn by him; and he is also the public weigh-inaster, and everything of consequence ought to be weighed before him. Enc. Lond.
  • KABOOLEAT
    In Hindu law. A written agreement, especially one signifying assent, as the counterpart of a revenue lease, or the document in which a payer of revenue, whether to the government, the zamindar, or the farmer, expresses his consent to pay the amount assessed upon his land. Wils. Ind. Gloss.
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