Category: J

In the civil law. The right of sewerage or drainage. An easement consisting in the right of having a sewer, or of conducting surface water, through the house or over the ground of one’s neighbor. Mackeld. Rom. Law,

In the civil law. The right to the use of rivers. Locc. de Jure Mar. lib. 1, c. 6.

In the civil law. Common right; the common and natural rule of right, as opposed to jus singulare, (q. v.) Mackeld. Rom. Law,

In the civil and old English law. A right of digging on another’s land. Inst 2, 3, 2; Bract, fol. 222

In English law. The right of the crown, or to the crown; the right of succession to the throne. 1 Bl. Comm. 191; 2 Steph. Comm. 434.

In old English law. The right of coining money. 2 How. State Tr. 118.

In English law. The right of curtesy. Spelman.

To give or to make the law; the function and prerogative of the legisla- tive department

In the civil law. The right of deliberating. A term granted by the proper officer at the request of him who is called to the inheritance, (the heir,) within which he has the right to investigate its condition and to consider whether he will accept or reject it. Mackeld. Rom. Law,

The right of the church of presenting a minister to a vacant parish, In case the patron shall neglect to exercise his right within the time limited by law.