Legal Definition and Related Resources of Jus

Right in general or in the abstract; justice or equity. Law in general ; law as distinguished from equity. A rule of law; a statute or regulation. Power or authority. An action; a court or judicial tribunal.

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Jus in Law Enforcement

Main Entry: Law Enforcement in the Legal Dictionary. This section provides, in the context of Law Enforcement, a partial definition of jus.

Etimology of Jus

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a word that has entered English in expressions from Latin, where it means “law, right” (see jurist) and French, where it means “juice” (see juice; this term is also a noun.).

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• Law Enforcement Agency

Further Reading

• jus in A Dictionary of Law Enforcement (Oxford University Press)
• jus in the Encyclopedia of Law Enforcement
• A Treatise on the Police of the Metropolis

Concept of “Jus”

Traditional meaning of jus in English (with some legal use of this latin concept in England and the United States in the XIX Century) [1]: (in Latin) Right; justice; law; see 1 Poll. & Maitl. Hist. 175; 2 id. 33; JURA; JURE; JURIS. Jus abutendi (the right to abuse): the right to use as one likes; absolute ownership. Jus accrescendi: the right of survivorship [as in joint property, on the death of one owner, when the other has the whole]; see 2nd Book (“The Rights of Things”), Blackstone’s Commentaries on the Laws of England 184; Wig. Ev.; § 2532. Jus accrescendi inter mercatores, pro beneflcio commercii, locum non habet: for the benefit of commerce, the right of survivorship has no existence among merchants. Jus accrescendi praefertur oneribus: the right of survivorship is preferred to incumbrances, or ultimo voluntati, to the last will. Jus ad rem: a right to a thing (in the civil law); a personal right; a right founded on contract. A right to the possession of a thing (in the canon law); an inchoate or imperfect right. A right to a thing (in the common law) as distinguished from jus in re, a right without possession; see 2nd Book (“The Rights of Things”), Blackstone’s Commentaries on the Laws of England 312. Jus aesneciae: the right of primogeniture. Jus angariae: see ANOARIA. Jus aquam ducendi: the right of leading water [over another’s land]. Jus banci (the right of bench): the right of having a high seat of justice, allowed only to the King’s justices. Jus belli: the law of war. Jus canonicum, the canon law; civile, the civil law; see CORPUS JURIS ; CANON LAW; CIVIL LAW. Jus civitatis: the right of citizenship. Jus commune: the common law; common right; see 1 Poll. & Maitl. Hist. 176. Jus cudendae monetae: the right of coining money. Jus curialitatis: the right of curtesy of England. Jus dare: to make law. Jus deliberandi: the right of deliberating. In Scotland, the right of the heir to consider for a year whether he will take up the succession. Jus dicere: to declare the law. Jus disponendi: the right of disposing, or of disposition. Jus duplicatum: a double right; droit droit; see 2nd Book (“The Rights of Things”), Blackstone’s Commentaries on the Laws of England 199. Jus et fraus nunquam cohabitant: justice and fraud never dwell together. Jus ex injuria non oritur: a right cannot arise from a wrong. Jus fiduciarium: a right in trust, a moral right; see 2nd Book (“The Rights of Things”), Blackstone’s Commentaries on the Laws of England 328. Jus fodiendi: a right of digging. Jus gentium: the law of nations. Jus habendi et retinendi: the right to have and retain the profits, tithes, and offerings of a rectory or parsonage. Jushauriendi: the right of drawing water. Jus in re: in Roman law, a right in a thing; a right of property availing against all the world, and particularly of an easement or servitude; droit droit, a right of property coupled with possession. So also jus in rem: a real right, a right in the thing itself; see AD REM; JUS AD REM. Jus in personam: a right against a person or particular class of persons; a personal right, a right founded on contract, or the act of another person. Jus legitimum: a legal right; enforceable at law; see 2nd Book (“The Rights of Things”), Blackstone’s Commentaries on the Laws of England 328. Jus mariti: the right of a husband; as, to his wife’s movables. Jus menun: bare right [without possession or right thereto]. Jus naturae: the law of nature. Jus naturale: natural law. Jus non scriptum: the unwritten law. Jus pascendi: right of pasture. Jus patronatus: 1. The right of patronage or presentation to a benefice. 2. A commission from the bishop awarded when two rival presentations are made to him upon the same avoidance, and directed to the bishop’s chancellor and others of competent learning, who are to summon a jury of six clergymen and six laymen to determine who is the rightful patron; see 3rd Book (“Of Private Wrongs”), Blackstone’s Commentaries on the Laws of England 246. Jus possessionis: right of possession. Jus postliminii: the right of the owner to reclaim proper
ty after recapture in war. Jus precarium: a right existing only in curtesy; precarious; see 2nd Book (“The Rights of Things”), Blackstone’s Commentaries on the Laws of England 328. Jus presentationis: see JUS PATRONATUS, I. Jus proprietatis: the right of property; see 2nd Book (“The Rights of Things”), Blackstone’s Commentaries on the Laws of England 197. Jus publicum privatorum pactis mutari non potest: a public right cannot be altered by the agreements of private persons. Jus relictae: the right of a widow in her deceased husband’s personal goods; anciently, one half, or one third if there were children. Jus scriptum: the written law. Jus tertii: the right of a third party; see 2 Poll. & Maid. Hist. 74, 76. Jus utendi: the right to use a thing, the opposite of jus abutendi.

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Notes and References

1. Based on A Concise Law Dictionary of Words, Phrases and Maxims, “Jus”, Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1911, United States. It is also called the Stimson’s Law dictionary. This term and/or definition may be absolete.

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