Terms beginning with "J" (136 total)

JOINTURE

Pa A competent livelihood of freehold for the wife of lands and tenements to take effect presently in possession or profit, after the decease of the husband, for the life of the wife at least. Co. Litt. 836d; 2 Bl. Comm...

JUBERE

Lat. In the civil law. To order, direct, or command. Calvin. The word jfubeo, (I order,) in a will, was called a “word of direction,” as distinguished from “precatory words.” Cod. 6, 43, 2.

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Jud. Ev

14; Best, Pres. § 217, ec seg. -Infirmative hypothesis. A term sometimes used in criminal evidence to denote an hypothesis or theory of the case which assumes the defendant's innocence, and explains the criminative evid...

JUDEX

from his home, and beyond the circle of his friends or acquaintances. Gholson y. State, 53 Ala. 521, 25 Am. Rep. 652. Lat. In Roman law. A private person appointed by the pretor, with the consent of the parties, to try ...

Judge ordinary. By St

20 & 21 Vict. c. 85, § 9, the judge of the court of probate was made judge of the court for divorce and matrimonial causes created by that act, under the name of the “judge ordinary.” In Scotland, the title “judge...

Judgm

(2d ed.) § 462. Judgment nisi. At common law, this was a judgment entered on the return of the nisi gprftue record, which, according to the terms of the postea, was to become absolute unlesea otherwise ordered by the co...

JUDGMENT

charged with the control of proceedings and the decision of questions of law or. discretion. Todd v. U. S., 158 U, S. 278, 15 Sup. vy; Brown & Sharpe Mfg. Co., 18 R. I. 16, 25 Atl. 246, 17 L. R. A. 856. merely interloc...

JUDICANDUM EST LEGIBUS

JUDGMENT IN PERSONAM. A judgment against a particular person, as distin: guished from a judgment against a thing or a right or status. The former class of judgments are conclusive only upon parties and privies; the latte...

JUDICARE

the laws, not according to examples or precedents. 4 Coke, 330); 4 Bl. Comm. 405. Lat. In the civil and old English law. To judge; to decide or determine judicially; to give judgment or sentence.

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JUDICATORES TERRARUM

Lat. Persons in the county palatine of Chester, who, on a writ of error, were to consider of the judgment given there, and reform it; otherwise they forfeited £100 to the crown by custom. Jenk. Cent. 71.

JUDICES ORDINARIT

Lat. In the civil law. Ordinary judices; the common judices appointed to try causes, and who, according to Blackstone, determined only questions of fact. 3 Bl. Comm. 815.

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JUDICES SELECTI

Lat. In the civil law. Select or selected judices or judges; those who were used in criminal causes, and between whom and modern jurors many points of resemblance have been noticed. 3

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JUDICIUM

As to judicial “Day,” “Deposit,” “Discretion,” “Documents,” “Evidence,” “Factor,” “Notice,” “Process,” “Sales,” “Sequestration,” and “Writs,” see those titles. ; Lat. Judicial...

Jur

288; Guy, Med. Jur. 133. 61, 238. 855.—Perpetual succession. at continuous existence which enables a corporation to manage its affairs, and hold property without the necessity of perpetual conveyances, for the purpos...

Jur. § 558; 4 Kent, Comm

421. The arrangement of assets or claims so as to secure the proper application of the assets to the various claims; especially when there are two classes of assets, and some creditors can enforce their claims against bo...

JURA

Lat. Plural of “jus.” Rights; laws. 1 Bl. Comm. 123. See Jus. —Jura fiscalia. In English law. Fiscal rights; rights of the exchequer. 3 Bl. Comm. civil law to designate certain rights which belong to each and ever...

JURIDICUS

Lat. Relating to the courts or to the administration of justice; juridical; lawful. Dies juridicus, a lawful day for the transaction of business in court; a day on which the courts are open.

JURISCONSULTUS

Lat. In Roman law. An expert in juridical science; a person thoroughly versed in the laws, who was habitually resorted to, for information and advice, both by private persons as his cilents, and also by the magistrates, ...