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Definition of Jus Honorarium The Jus Praetorium and the jus aedilicium. (Roman law.) Browse You might be interested in these references tools: ResourceDescription Jus Honorarium in the Dictionaries, Jus Honorarium in our legal dictionaries, Related topics, Browse topics from the European […]

Definition of Justicias Facere To hold pleas; to exercise judicial functions Browse You might be interested in these references tools: ResourceDescription Justicias Facere in the Dictionaries, Justicias Facere in our legal dictionaries, Related topics, Browse topics from the European […]

Definition of Justiciar The chief political and legal officer of the Norman and Plantagenet kings. He was ex officio regent when the King went overseas, and presided over the Curia Regis (q.v.). The office ceased to exist during the reign of Henry III Browse You might be interested in these […]

Definition of Jus Liberorum ‘The special rights granted to the mother of three or four children; or to the father. (Roman law.) Browse You might be interested in these references tools: ResourceDescription Jus Liberorum in the Dictionaries, Jus Liberorum in our legal dictionaries, Related […]

Definition of Justification (1) The plea in defence of an action which admits the allegations of the plaintiff but pleads that they were justifiable or lawful. For example, in libel a plea of justification admits the publication of the defamatory words, but pleads that they are true in […]

Definition of Jus Mariti The right of a husband. That right to the chattels of a woman which her husband acquired on their marriage, and by virtue of which he is entitled to her undisposed-of personal estate on her death Browse You might be interested in these references tools: […]

Definition of Juratores Sunt Judices Facti Juries are the judges of fact. Browse You might be interested in these references tools: ResourceDescription Juratores Sunt Judices Facti in the Dictionaries, Juratores Sunt Judices Facti in our legal dictionaries, Related topics, Browse topics from […]

Definition of Juris Utrum A writ or action by an incumbent to recover possession of land held by him in right of the church Browse You might be interested in these references tools: ResourceDescription Juris Utrum in the Dictionaries, Juris Utrum in our legal dictionaries, Related topics, […]

Definition of Jurisprudence The science of law. The philosophical aspect of the knowledge of law (Cicero). The knowledge of things human and divine, the science of the just and the unjust (Ulpian).Jurisprudence as a formal science was developed in England by Hobbes, Bentham and Austin. Sir […]

Definition of Judicial Separation A decree of judicial separation may be pronounced by the Probate, Divorce and Admiralty Division on the petition of either husband or wife (1) in all cases in which a divorce a mensa et thoro might have been obtained in the Ecclesiastical Courts, (2) on the […]