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  • JUS HABENDI
    The right to have a thing. The right to be put in actual possession of property. Lewin, Trusts, 585. -Jns habendi ot retinendi. A right to have and to retain the profits, tithes, and offerings, etc., of a rectory or parsonage. ?
  • JUS HAEREDITATIS
    The right of inheritance.
  • JUS HAURIENDI
    In the civil and old English law. The right of drawing water. Fleta, lib. 4, c 27, s 1.
  • JUS HONORARIUM
    The body of Roman law, which was made up of edicts of the supreme magistrates, particularly the praetors.
  • JUS IMAGINIS
    In Roman law. The right to use or display pictures or statutes of ancestors; somewhat analogous to-the right, in English law, to bear a coat of arms.
  • JUS IMMUNITATIS
    In the civil law. The law of Immunity or exemption from the burden of public office. Dig. 50, 6.
  • JUS IN PERSONAM
    A right against a person; a right which gives its possessor a power to oblige another person to give or procure, to do or not to do, something.
  • JUS IN RE
    In the civil law. A right in a thing. A right existing in a person with respect to an article or subject of property, inherent in his relation to it, implying complete ownership with possession, and available against all the world. See JUS AD REM. -Jus in re propria. The More...
  • JUS INCOGNITUM
    An unknown law. This term is applied by the civilians to obsolete laws. Bowyer, Mod. Civil Law, 33.
  • JUS INDIVIDUUM
    An individual or indivisible right; a right incapable of division. 36 Eng. Law A Eq. 25.
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