Category: J

the name that is given to the title of a property you have gotten from the owner and it may seem to be perfect but it is not absolute or perfect. See colour of title.

a term mused in tax practices that is the fair value of property for tax purposes.

Theory that bad things happen to people due to their previous bad acts. human tendency to rationalize injustice thinking that people will eventually want get what they want because the world is just. Psychological terminology.

The right of representing or standing in the place of another, or of being represented by another.

The law of things. The law regulating the rights and powers of persons over things; how property is acquired, enjoyed, and transferred. Jus respicit aequitatem. Law regards equity. Co. Litt. 246; Broom, Max. 151.

A person’s citizenship is by ‘blood’, that of the parents. This rule is followed in most countries of the world. Canada and US use Jus Solis (where born) instead.

In Roman law. Written law. Inst. 1, 2, 3. All law that was actually committed to writing, whether it had originated by enactment or by custom, in contradistinction to such parts of the law of custom as were not committed to writing. Mackeld. Bom. Law,

In the civil law. A peculiar or Individual rule, differing from the jus commune, or common rule of rigfit, and established for some special reason. Mackeld. Bom. Law,

In old European law. The law of staple; the right of staple. A right or privilege of certain towns of stopping imported merchandise, and compelling It to lie offered for sale in their own markets. Locc. de Jure Mar. lib. 1, c. 10.

Strict law; law interpreted without any modification, and In its utmost rigor. Jns superveniens a lie tori accrescit snc- ccssori. A right growing to a possessor ac- crues to the successor. Halk. Lat. Max. 76.