Younger. 2. This has been held to be no part of a man s name, but an addition by use, and a convenient distinction between a father and son of the sam...
med. jur. This plant is commonly called savine. 2. It is used for lawful purposes in medicine, but too frequently for the criminal intent of producing...
The rights and duties of persons are so called....
The rights which a man may acquire in and to such external things as are unconnected with. his person, are called jura rerum. 2 Bl. Com. 1....
Rights of sovereignty or supreme dominion....
Corporal oaths. These oaths are so called, because the party making oath must touch the Bible, or other thing by which he swears....
A term in the civil law. The oath called juramentum judiciale is that which the judge, of his wwn accord, defers to either of the parties. 2. It is of...
ial that the officer should sign the jurat, and that it should contain his addition and official description. 3 Caines, 128. But see 6 Wend. 543; 12 W...
A certificate placed at the bottom of an affidavit, declaring that the witness has been sworn or affirmed to the truth of the facts therein alleged. I...
officers. In some English corporations, jurats are officers who have much the same power as aldermen in others. Stat. 1 Ed. IV. Stat. 2 & 3 Ed. VI. c....
By law; by right; in right; as, jure civilis, by the civil law; jure gentium, by the law of nations; jure representationis, by right of representation...
Signifies used in courts of law; done in conformity to the laws of the country, and the practice which is there observed....
Dies juridici. Days in court on which the law is administered....
A phrase employed to denote conclusive presumptions of law, which cannot be rebutted by evidence. The words signify of law and from law. Best on Presu...
One well versed in jurisprudence; a jurist: one whose profession it is to give counsel on questions of law....
Practice. A power constitutionally conferred upon a judge or magistrate, to take cognizance of, and decide causes according to law, and to carry his s...
That part of a bill in chancery which is intended to give jnrisdiction of the suit to, the court, by a general averment that theacts complained of are...
The science of the law. By science here, is understood that connexion of truths which is founded on principles either evident in themselves, or capabl...
One well versed in the science of the law. The term i s usually applied to students and practitioners of law....
practice. From juro, to swear; a man who is sworn or affirmed to serve on a jury. 2. Jurors are selected from citizens, and may be compelled to serve ...
A body of men selected according to law, for the purpose of deciding some controversy. 2. This mode of trial by jury was adopted soon after the conque...
A place set apart for the jury to sit in during the trial of a cause....
A paper containing the names of jurors impanneled to try a cause, or it contains the names of all the jurors summoned to attend court....
Law or right. This term is applied in many modern phrases. It is also used to signify equity. Story, Eq. Jur. 1; Bract, lib. 1, c. 4, p. 3; Tayl. Civ...
The right to abuse. By this phrase is understood the right to abuse property, or having full dominion over property. 3 Toull. n. 86....
The right of survivorship. 2. At common law, when one of several joint tenants died, the entire tenancy or estate went to the survivors, and so on to ...
property, title. This phrase is applied to designate the right a man has in relation to a thing; it is not the right in the thing itself, but only aga...
CIV. law. The name of a servitude which Lives to the owner of land the right to bring down water through or from the land of another, either from its ...
Among the Romans by jus civile was understood the civil law, in contradistinction to the public law, or jus gentium. 1 Savigny, Dr. Rom. c. 1, 1....
Among the Romans the collection of laws which are to be observed among all the members of a nation were so called. It is opposed to jus gentium, which...
civil law. The name of a servitude which requires the paity who is subject to it, to permit his neighbor to conduct the waters which fall on his groun...
To give or to make the law. Jus dare belongs to the legislature; jus dicere to the judge....
To declare the law. This word is used to explain the power which the court has to expound the law; and not to make it, jus dare....
The right of deliberating, which in some countries, where the heir may have benefit of inventory, (q. v.) is given to him to consider whether he will ...
The right to dispose of a thing....
property, title. When a man has the possession as well as the property of anything, he is said to have a double right, jus duplicatum. Bract. 1. 4, tr...
Among the Romans it was that species of international law which had its foundation in the religious belief of different nations, such as the internati...
Civil law. A right to something held in trust; for this there was a remedy in conscience. 2 Bl. Com. 328....
The law of nations. (q. v.) Although the Romans used these words in the sense we attach to law of nations, yet among them the sense was much more exte...
Supreme jurisdiction. The right to absolve from, or condemn a man to death....
The right to have and enjoy a thing....
An unknown law. This term is applied by the civilians to obsolete laws, which, as Bacon truly observes, are unjust, for the law to be just must give w...
civil law. A legal right which might have been enforced by due course of law.. 2 Bl. Com. 328....
Scotch law. The right of the hushand to administer, during the marriage, his wife s goods and the rents of her heritage. 2. In the common law, by jus ...
A simple or bare right; a right to property in land, without possession, or the right of possession....
eccl. law. A commission from the bishop, directed usually to his chancellor and others of competent learning, who are required to summon a jury compos...
The right of persons. 2. A branch of the law which embraces the theory of the different classes of men who exist in a state which has been formed by n...
civil law. A right to a thing held for another, for which there was no remedy. 2 Bl. Com. 328....
property, title. The right to claim property after re-capture. Vide, Postliminy; Marsh. Ins. 573; 1 Kent, Com. 108. Dane s Ab. Index, h. t....
Civil law. The name of a servitude; it is the right which the owner of a building has of projecting a part of his building towards the adjoining house...
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