JURISDICTIO EST POTESTAS
JURIDICAL. Relating to administration of justice, or office of a judge. :
Terms beginning with "J" (136 total)
JURISDICTION
offenses; the authority by which judicial officers take cognizance of and decide criminal cases. Ellison y. State, 125 Ind. 492, 24 N. E. 439; In re City of Buffalo, 189 N. Y. 422, 34 N. E. 1103.—Equity jurisdiction. I...
JURISDICTION 673
Jurisdiction is a power introduced for the public good, on account of the necessity of dispensing justice. 10 Coke, 73a.
JURISDICTIONAL 674 ©
JURISDICTIONAL. Pertaining or relating to jurisdiction; conferring jurisdic tion; showing or disclosing jurisdiction; defining or limiting jurisdiction; essential to jurisdiction. ;
JURISINCEPTOR
Lat. A student of the civil law. :
JURISPERITUS
Lat. Skilled or learned in the law.
JURISPRUDENTIA
Lat. In the civil and common law. Jurisprudence, or legal science.
JURY
science of whiat is right and what is wrong sues of fact are generally tried, as, distinguishfrom a cial jury, (g. v.)—F'o jury. A jury obtained from a ont other than that
JUS
which, in an order determined by the hazard of its revolutions, are drawn a sufficient number of such names to make up the panels for a given term of court. Lat. In Roman law. Right; jus tice; law; the whole body oz law...
JUS CIVILE
an inchoate .or incomplete right to a thing; the latter, a ga) Un and perfect right to a thing. See The rlos F. Roses, 177 U. S. 655, 20 Sup. Ct. 803, 44 L. Ed. 929; The Young law each people has settled for itself is p...
JUS FIDUCIARIUM
rites and religious ceremonies of the different. peoples.
JUS ITALICUM
JUS GLADIT. The right of the sword; the executory power of the law; the right, power, or prerogative of punishing for crime. 4 Bl. Comm. 177.
JUS JURANDI FORMA
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...
JUS NAVIGANDI
igating or navigation; the right of commerce by ships or by sea. Locc. de Jure Mar. lib. 1, « 8.
JUS PATRONATUS
or less purity, in the laws of all nations. And, conversely, they held that if any rule or principle of law was observed in common by all peoples with whose systems they were
Jus ponitur pro ipsa arte. Bract
fol. 2b. A court or judicial tribunal, (locus in quo reddttur jus.) Id. fol. 3. For various compound and descriptive terins, see the following tities:
JUS PROPRIETATIS. ‘The right
of property, as distinguished from the jus passessionis, or right of possession. Bract. fol 3. Called by Bracton “jus mecrum,” the mere right. Id.; 2 Bl. Comm. 197; 3 BL
JUS RECUPERANDI
which governs corporations is the same which governs individuals. Foster v. Essex
JUS REPRESENTATIONIS
of representing dr standing in the place of
JUS STAPULZ
in old European law. The law of staple; the right of staple. A right or privilege of certain towns of stop ping imported merchandise, and compelling it to be offered for sale in their own markets. Locc. de Jure Mar. lib....
JUS VENANDI ET PISCANDI
right of hunting and fishing.
JUS: QUO UNIVERSIFATES
hdvantage of the general public. In this sense, a state may have.a double: right: in given property, c. g., lands covered by navigable waters within its boundaries, including both “jus publicum,’ a sovereign or polit...
JUS’ PERSONARUM BSD
-F{U0S PERSONARUM. Rights of perséns.: Those rights which, in the civil law, belong to persons as such, or in their different.: characters and relations; as parents
JUST
would be unjust to the public that it should be required to pay the owner more than a fair indemnity for the loss he sustains by the apropriation of his property for the general good. nm the other hand, it would be equal...
Just. Inst
(5th Ed.) 98. Im modern civil law. Lands whose 274. Wharton.
JUSTICE
common distinction between them is that that which, considered positively and in itself, is called “virtue,” when considered relatively and with respect to others has the name of “justice.” But “justice,” bei...
JUSTICES’ COURTS. Inferior
tribunals, not of record, with limited jurisdiction, both civil and criminal, held by justices of the peace. There are courts so.called in many of the states. See Searl v. Shanks, 9 N. D. 204, 82 N. W. 734; Brownfield v.
JUSTICIARIL ITINERANTES. In Eng
lish law. Justices in eyre, who formerly went from county to county to administer justice. They were so called to distinguish them from justices residing at Westminister,
JUSTICIARIT RESIDENTES. In Eng
lish law. Justices or judges who usuaily resided in Westminister. They were so called to distinguish them from justices in eyre.
JUSTICIARY COURT
Smith v. Abbott, 17 N. J. Law, 866; People v. Mann, 97 N. Y. 530, 49 Am. Rep. 556. __
JUSTINIAN
A dody of law established by the legislative authority, and intended to set forth, in generalized and systematic form, the principles of the entire law, whether written or unwritten, pasitive or customary, derived from e...
Justinianean codes. See Cod
7, 62, 9; Id. 9, 2, 11.
JUSTINIANIST
studies the civil law.
Justitia firmatur solium
3 Inst. 140. By justice the throne is established..
JUXTA
Lat. Near; following; accord-
JUZGADO
Justitia est duplex, vis., niens et vere preveniens. Justice is double; truly preventing.