Category: J

The right of inheritance.

The body of Roman law, which was made up of edicts of the supreme magistrates, particularly the praetors.

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.

In the civil law. The law of immunity or exemption from the burden of public office. Dig. 50, 6.

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.

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.

An unknown law. This term is applied by the civilians to obsolete laws. Bowyer, Mod. Civil Law, 33.

An individual or indivisible right; a right incapable of division. 36 Eng. Law & Eq. 25.

rites and religious ceremonies of the different peoples.

A body of laws drawn up by Sextus vElius, and consisting of three parts, wherein were explained, respectively: (1) The laws of the Twelve Tables; (2) the Interpretation of and decisions upon such laws; and (3) the forms of procedure. In date, it was subsequent to the jus I’lavU anum, (q. v.) Brown.