See good cause. … [Read more...] about JUST CAUSE
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JUS MERUM
In old English law. Mere or bare right; the mere right of property in lands, without either possession or even the right of possession. 2 Bl. Comm. 197; Bract fol. 23. … [Read more...] about JUS MERUM
JUS POSTLIMINII
In the civil law. The right of postliminy; the right or claim of a person who had been restored to the possession of a thing, or to a former condition, to be considered as though he had never been deprived of it Dig. 49, 15, 5; 3 Bl. Comm. 107, 210. In international law. The right by which property taken by an enemy, and recaptured or rescued from him by the fellow subjects or … [Read more...] about JUS POSTLIMINII
JUS NATURAE
The law of nature. See JUS NATURALE. … [Read more...] about JUS NATURAE
JUS PRAESENS
In the civil law. A present or vested right; a right already completely acquired. Mackeld. Rom. Law, … [Read more...] about JUS PRAESENS