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JURA

Jura ad personam. Rights in per-
See In personam.

sonam.

Jura ad rem. Rights in rem. See
In rem.

Jura ecclesiastica limitata sunt in-
fra limites separatos. Ecclesias-
tical laws are limited within sep-
arate confines.

Jura eodem modo destituuntur quo constituuntur. Laws are repealed

in the same manner in which they
are enacted.

Jura fiscalia. Fiscal rights. See
Fiscal.

Jura in re. Rights in a thing, being
exclusive or shared with others.

Jura majestatis. Rights of ereignty. See 18 Cal. 229. Jura naturae

JURATS

Jura summi imperii. Sovereign
rights.

Juramentae corporales. Corporal
oaths. See Corporal oath.
Juramentum. An oath.
Juramentum calumniae. Oath of
calumny, required in civil law ac-
tions of both parties, disclaiming
malice.

Juramentum est indivisibile; et non
est admittendum in parte verum
et in parte falsam. An oath is
indivisible; it is not to be re-
ceived as partly true and partly
false.
Juramentum necessarium. (Civil
Law)
SOV-
A necessary oath, required
of a party to an action, binding
on the other party.
Juramentum voluntarium. (Civil
Law)
A voluntary oath, not re-
quired of a party to the action,
but binding on the other party
when made.

sunt immutabilia. Natural laws are unchangeable. Jura personarum. Rights which concern and are annexed to one's person. See 1 Bl. Comm. 122.

Jura praediorum.

estates.

Rights of landed

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Jurare.
To swear; to make oath.
Jurare est deum in testum vocare,
et est actus divini cultus. То
swear is to call God to witness,
and is an act of divine reverence.
Jurat. The officer's certificate af-
fixed to an affidavit, stating that
the affiant was sworn before him.
See 140 U. S. 151, 35 L. Ed. 391,
11 Sup. Ct. Rep. 745.
Jurata. A jury.

Juration. The taking or adminis-
tration of an oath.

Jurato creditur in judicio. One who
is sworn is to be believed in court.
Jurator. A juryman.
Juratores debent esse vicini, suffi-
cientes et minus suspecti. Jurors
ought to be neighbors, sufficiently
well off and free from suspicion.
Juratores sunt judices facti. Jurors
are the judges of fact.
Jurats. Sworn officers.

JURE

Jure. By law; in law; hy right. Jure alluvionis. By right of alluvion.

Jure belli. By right of war.
Jure civili. By the civil law.
Jure ecclesiae. By the ecclesiasti-
cal law.

Jure emphyteutico. By right of em-
phyteusis. See Emphyteusis.
Jure naturae aequum est, neminem
cum alterius detrimento, et in-
juria fieri locupletiorem. By nat-
ural law it is just that no one
should be enriched by another's
loss or injury.

Jure propinquitatis. By right of relationship.

Jure representationis. By right of representation.

Jure uxoris. In the right of the wife.

Juri non est consonum quod aliquis accessorius in curia regis convincatur antequam aliquis de facto fuerit attinctus. It is not consonant with the law that any accessory should be convicted in the king's court before any one has been attainted of the fact. Juridical. Pertaining to law or to its administration. Juridicus. Juridical.

Juris consultus. Learned in the law.

Juris effectus in executione consistit. The effect of law rests in its execution.

Juris et de jure. Of law and by law, a term applied to conclusive presumptions. See Conclusive presumption.

Juris et seisinae conjunctio. The union of right and seisin. See Seisin.

Juris gentium. The law of nations. Juris positivi. Positive law, which

see.

JURY

ris praecepta sunt hoc. The precepts of law are this.

Juris publici. Of common right. Juris utrum. A writ of right for a parson to recover land alienated by a predecessor. Jurisconsultus. One learned in the law.

Jurisdictio. Jurisdiction.

Jurisdictio est potestas de publico introducta, cum necessitate juris dicendi. Jurisdiction is a power introduced for the public good, through the necessity of administering the law.

Jurisdiction. The right to adjudicate concerning the subject matter in a given case. See 29 Am. St. Rep. 82, note. Jurisdiction clause. The clause in a bill in equity upon which the complainant bases his claim of the court's jurisdiction. Jurisdictional. Essential to jurisdiction. Jurisperitus.

Learned in the law. Jurisprudence. The science of law. Jurisprudentia. Jurisprudence. Jurisprudentia est divinarum atque humanarum rerum notitia; justi atque injusti scientia. Jurisprudence is knowledge of things divine and human; the science of the just and the unjust. Jurisprudentia legis communis an

gliae est scientia socialis et copiosa. The jurisprudence of the English common law is a science social and copious.

Jurist. One learned in the law. Juristic act. One calculated to have legal effect.

Juro. A pension granted by the king of Spain.

Juror. A member of a jury.

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JURY

1914A, 867, 46 L. R. A. (N. S.) 38, 78 S. E. 293. A body of laymen selected by lot to ascertain, under the guidance of a judge, the truth in questions of fact in either a civil or a criminal case. See 96 Tenn. 409, 32 L. R. A. 354, 34 S. W. 1029. See Grand jury, and Petit jury. Jury box. The place in a courtroom

for the jury to sit during a trial. Jury de medietate linguae. A jury composed half of citizens and half of the nationality of one of the parties to the action.

Jury list. A list of persons eligible for jury duty.

Jury of annoyance. A jury called to examine into and report on public nuisances.

Jury of matrons. A jury of women impaneled to determine a question as to a woman's pregnancy. Jury process. Process of a court employed to summon jurors and to compel their attendance. Jury wheel. A contrivance by which the names of jurors to be summoned for duty are selected by lot from the jury list. Juryman. A juror.

Jurywomen. Members of a jury of matrons.

Jus. Right; justice; law. See 39 N. J. Eq. 551.

Jus abutendi. The right to abuse, i. e., full ownership.

Jus accrescendi. The right of survivorship.

Jus accrescendi inter mercatores locum non habet, pro beneficio commercii. The right of survivorship has no place among merchants, for the benefit of com

merce.

Jus accrescendi praefertur oneribus. The right of survivorship is preferred to encumbrances.

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The servitude of

Jus aquaeductus. conducting water over another's land.

Jus aquam ducendi. Same as Jus aquaeductus.

Jus banci. The right of bench, an elevated judge's seat.

Jus belli. The law of war. Jus bellum decendi. The right to declare war.

Jus canonicum. The canon law. Jus civile. The civil law. Jus civile est quod sibi populus constituit. The civil law is that which a people establishes for itself. See 1 Johns. (N. Y.) 424. Jus civitatis. The right of citizenship.

Jus cloacae. The right of sewage or drainage.

Jus commune. Common right; the common law.

Jus constitui oportet in his quae ut

plurimum accidunt non quae ex inopinato. Law ought to be established in respect to those matters which occur most often, not those which occur unexpectedly. Jus coronae. The right of the

crown.

Jus cudendae monetae. The right of coining money.

Jus curialitatis. The right of courtesy. See Courtesy.

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Jus descendit, et non terra. right descends, not the land. Jus dicere. To declare to expound the law.

Jus dicere, non jus dare. To declare the law, not to make the law. See 10 Johns. (N. Y.) 566. Jus disponendi. The right of disposing.

Jus dividendi. ing by will. Jus duplicatum. A double right. See 2 Bl. Comm. 199.

The right of devis

Jus est ars boni et aequi. Law is the practice (practical application) of what is good and just. Jus est norma recti; et quicquid est contra normam recti est injuria. Justice is the rule of right and whatever is contrary to the rule of right is an injury.

Jus et fraus nunquam cohabitant. Justice and fraud never live together.

Jus ex injuria non oritur. A right

cannot spring from a wrong. Jus feciale. Fecial law, which see. Jus fiiduciarum. A right in trust. See 3 Bl. Comm. 328.

Jus fluminum. The right of using the rivers.

Jus fodiendi. The right of digging in the land of another.

Jus gentium. Law of nations, which

see.

Jus gladii. The right of the sword, i. e., to punish for crime.

Jus habendi. The right of having possession.

Jus habendi et retinendi. The right

of having and keeping the rewards and fruits of a rectory or parsonage.

Jus haereditatis. The right of inheritance.

Jus hauriendi. The right or servitude of drawing water.

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Jus Italicum. The rights of a Roman colony.

Jus jurandum. See Jusjurandum.
Jus Latii. The right of the Latins.
Jus legitimum. A legal right.
Jus mariti. The right of a hus-
band.

Jus merum. A mere right, i. e., without possession.

Jus naturae. The law of nature.
Jus naturale. Natural law.
Jus naturale est quod apud homines

eandem habet potentiam. Natural law is that which has the same power among mankind. Jus navigandi. The right of navigation.

Jus necis. The right of death, which the Romans possessed in respect to their children.

Jus non habenti, tute non paretur. He is safely disobeyed who has no right.

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Jus postliminii. The right of an owner to his goods captured in war and retaken from the enemy. Jus praesens. A present or existing right.

Jus praetorium. The discretion of the praetor: that which in Roman law corresponded to equity. Jus precarium. A right in courtesy. See 2 Bl. Comm. 328.

Jus presentationis. The right of a patron of presentation to a benefice. See 3 Bl. Comm. 246. Jus projiciendi. The servitude of projecting one's building over his neighbor's land.

Jus proprietatis. A right of property. See 2 Bl. Comm. 197. Jus protegendi. Same as Jus projiciendi.

Jus publicum. A public right. Jus publicum et privatum quod ex naturalibus praeceptis aut gentium aut civilibus est collectum; et quod in jure scripto jus appellatur, id in lege Angliae rectum esse dicitur. Law, both public and private, is that which is collected from natural precepts either of nations or states and that which in the written law is called "jus," in the law of England is called "right."

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