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  • JUS ITALICUM
    A term of the Roman law descriptive of the aggregate of rights, privileges, and franchises possessed by the cities and inhabitants of Italy, outside of the city of Rome, and afterwards extended to some of the colonies and provinces of the empire, consisting principally in the right to have a More...
  • JUS LATII
    In Roman law. The right of Latium or of the Latins. The principal privilege of the Latins seems to have been the use of their own laws, and their not being subject to the edicts of the praetor, and that they had occasional access to the freedom of Rome, and More...
  • JUS LATIUM
    In Roman law. A rule of law applicable to magistrates in Latium. It was either majus Latium or minus Latium,-the majus Latium raising to the dignity of Roman citizen not only the magistrate himself, but'also his wife and children; the minus Latium raising to that dignity only the magistrate himself. More...
  • JUS LEGITIMUM
    A legal right In the civil law. A right which was enforceable in the ordinary course of law. 2 Bl. Comm. 328.
  • JUS MARITI
    The right of a husband; especially the right which a husband acquires to his wife's movable estate by virtue of the marriage. 1 Forb. Inst, pt 1, p. 63.
  • JUS MERUM
    In old English law. Mere or bare right; the mere right of property in lands, without either possession or even the right of possession. 2 Bl. Comm. 197; Bract fol. 23.
  • JUS NATURAE
    The law of nature. See JUS NATURALE.
  • JUS NATURALE
    The natural law, or law of nature; law, or legal principles, supposed to be discoverable by the light of nature or abstract reasoning, or to be taught by nature to all nations and men alike; or law supposed to govern men and peoples in a state of nature, 4. c, More...
  • 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...
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