An individual or indivisible right; a right incapable of division. 36 Eng. Law A Eq. 25. … [Read more...]

In the civil and old English law. The right of pasturing cattle. Inst. 2, 3, 2; Bract, fols. 53b, 222. … [Read more...]

Public law, or the law relating to the constitution and functions of government and its officers and the administration of criminal justice. Also public ownership, or the paramount or sovereign territorial right or title of the state or government. See Jus Privatum. Jus publicum et privatum quod ex naturalibus prseceptis aut gentium aut oivilibus est collectum; et quod in jure … [Read more...]

A term of the Roman law descriptive of the aggregate of rights, privileges, and franchises possessed by the cities and inhabitants of Italy, outside of 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 land … [Read more...]

In English ecclesiastical law. The right of patronage; the right of presenting a clerk to a benefice. Blount. A commission from the bishop, where two presentations are offered upon the same avoidance, directed usually to his chancellor and others of competent learning, who are to summon a jury of six clergymen and six laymen to inquire into and examine who is the rightful … [Read more...]