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 peculiar to the state itself, and is called “jus cirile,” as being peculiar to that very state. The law, again, that natural reason has settled among all men,—the law that is guarded among all peoples quite alike,—is called the “jus gentium,” and all nations use it as if law. The Roman people, therefore. use a law that is partly peculiar to itself, partly common to all men. Hunter, Rom. Law, 38.