Category: J

A right to ask or recover ; for example, in an obligation there is a binding of the obligor, and a jus quasi- turn in the obligee. 1 Bell, Comm. 323.

The right of recovering [lands.]

In Scotch law. The right of a relict; the right or claim of a relict or widow to her share of her husband’s estate, particularly the movables. 2 Kames, Eq. 340; 1 Forb. Inst. pt. 1, p. 67

The unwritten law. 1 Bl. Comm. 64.

In Roman law, the right of subrogation, that is, the right of succeeding to the lien and priority of an elder creditor on tendering or paying into court the amount due to him. See Mackeld. Rom. Law,

The civil law of Papirius. The title of the earliest collection of Roman leges euriatce, said to have been made in the time of Tarquin, the last of the kings, by a pontifex maximus of the name of Sextus or Publius Papirius. Very few fragments of this collection now remain, and the authenticity of these has been doubted. Mackeld. Rom. Law,

In the civil and old English law. The right of pasturing cattle. Inst. 2, 3, 2; Bract, fols. 53&, 222

the city of Rome, and afterwards extended to some of the colonies and provinces of the empire, consisting principally in the right to have a free constitution, to be exempt from the land tax, and to have the title to the land regarded as Quiritarian property. See Gibbon, Rom. Emp. c. xvii; Mackeld. Rom. Law,

law each people has settled for itself is peculiar to the state itself, and is called “jus civile,” as being peculiar to that very state. The law, again, that natural reason has settled among all men,

Rights of persons. Those rights which, in the civil law, belong to persons as such, or in their different characters and relations; as parents and children, masters and servants, etc.