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  • JUS PRAESENS
    In the civil law. A present or vested right; a right already completely acquired. Mackeld. Rom. Law, | 191.
  • JUS PRAETORIUM
    In the civil law. The discretion of the praetor, as distinct from the leges, or standing laws. 3 Bl. Comm. 49. That kind of law which the praetors introduced for the purpose of aiding* supplying, or correcting the civil law for the public benefit Dig. 1, 1, 7. Called, also, More...
  • JUS PRECARIUM
    In the civil law. A right to a thing held for another, for which there was no remedy by legal action,, but only by entreaty or request. 2 Bl. Comm. 32a
  • JUS PRESENTATIONIS
    The right of presentation.
  • JUS PRIVATUM
    Private law; the law regulating the rights, conduct and affairs of individuals, as distinguished from "public" law, which relates to the constitution and functions of government and the administration of criminal justice. See Mackeld. Rom. Law, ? 124. Also private ownership, or the right, title, or dominion of a private More...
  • JUS PROJICIENDI
    In the civil law. The name of a servitude which consists in the right to build a projection, such as a balcony or gallery, from one's house in the open space belonging to one's neighbor, but without resting on his house. Dig. 50, 16, 242; Id. 8, 2, 2; Mackeld. More...
  • JUS PROPRIETATIS
    The right of property, as distinguished from the jus posses sionis, or right of possession. Bract. foL 3. Called by Bracton "jus mcrum," the mere right Id.; 2 Bl. Comm. 197; 3 BL Comin. 19, 176.
  • JUS PROTEGENDI
    In the civil law; The name of a servitude. It is a right by which a part of the roof or tiling of one house is made to extend over the adjoining house. Dig. 50, 16, 242, 1; Id. 8, 2, 25; Id. 8, 5, 8, 5.
  • JUS PUBLICUM
    Public law, or the law relating to the constitution and functions of government and its officers and the administration of criminal justice. Also public ownership, or the paramount or sovereign territorial right or title of the state or government. See Jus PRIVATUM. Jns publicum et privatum qnod ex naturaUbus praeoeptis More...
  • JUS QUAESITUM
    A right to ask or recover; for example, in an obligation there is a binding of the obligor, and a jus qua>*i-turn in the obligee. 1 Bell, Comm. 323.
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