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. ...
A right to ask or recover; for example, in an obligation there is a binding of the obligor, and a jus quaesitum in the obligee. 1 Bell s Com. 323, 5th...
property, title. The right which a man has in a thing by which it belongs to him. It is a complete and full right. Poth. Dr. de Dora. de Prop. n. 1. 2...
Scotch law. The right of a wife, after her hushand s death, to a third of movables, if there be children; and to one-half, if there be none....
The right of things. Its principal object is to ascertain how far a person can have a permanent dominion over things, and how that dominion is acquire...
A Latin phrase, which signifies law interpreted without any modification, and in its utmost rigor....
The right to use property, without destroying its substance. It is employed in contradistinction to the jus abutendi. (q. v.) 3 Toull. n. 86....
This epithet is applied to that which agrees with a given law which is the test of right and wrong. 1 Toull. prel. n. 5 Aust. Jur. 276, n. It is that ...
The constant and perpetual disposition to render every man his due. Just. Inst. B. 1, tit. 1. Toullier defines it to be the conformity of our actions ...
Judges. Officers appointed by a competent authority to administer justice. They are so called, because, in ancient times the Latin word for judge was ...
They were certain judges established if not first appointed, A. D. 1176, 22 Hen. II. England was divided into certain circuits, and three justices in ...
Public officers invested with judicial powers for the purpose of preventing breaches of the peace, and bringing to punishment those who have violated ...
A judge, or justice the same as justiciary....
Eng. law. They were formerly justices, who were so called because they went from county to county to administer justice. They were usually called just...
Eng. law. They were justices or judges, who usually resided in Westminster; they were so called to distinguish them from justices in eyre. Co. Litt. 2...
officer. Another name for a judge. In Latin, he was called justiciciarius, and in French, justicier. Not used. Bac. Ab. Courts and their Jurisdiction,...
Eng. law. The name of a writ which acquires its name from the mandatory words which it contains, "that you do A B justice."2. The county court has jur...
That which is committed with the intention to kill, or to do a grievous bodily injury, under circumstances which the law holds sufficient to exculpate...
The act by which a party accused shows and maintains a good and legal reason in court, why he did the thing he is called upon to answer.2. The subject...
A kind of compurgators, or those who, by oath, justified the innocence or oaths of others, as in the case of wagers of law....
practice. The production of bail in court, who there justify themselves Against the exception of the plaintiff....
Engl. law. The name of a writ commanding the defendant to show by what right he demands common of pasture in the land of the complainant, who claims t...
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