Latin meaning A right against a person; a right which gives its possessor a power to oblige another person to give or procure to do or not to do something. … [Read more...]

Principles of international law that are fundamental and cannot be ignored by any country, for example, intentional murder. … [Read more...]

In Roman law. The law of arms, or of heralds. A rudimentary species of international law founded on the rites and religious ceremonies of the different peoples. … [Read more...]

property, title. The right which a man has in a thing by which it belongs to him. It is a complete and full right. Poth. Dr. de Dora. de Prop. n. 1. 2. This phrase of the civil law conveys the same idea as thing, in possession does with us. Law Dictionary - Alternative Legal Definition In the civil law. A right in a thing. A right existing in a person with respect to an article … [Read more...]

In the civil law. Common right; the common and natural rule of right, as opposed to jus singulare, (q. v.) Mackeld. Rom. Law, 196. In English law. The common law, answering to the Saxon "folcright." 1 BL Comm. 67. Jus constitui oportet in his quae nt plurimum accident non quae ex inopinato. Laws ought to be made with a view to those cases which happen most frequently, and not … [Read more...]