The civil law of Paplrius. The title of the earliest collection of Roman leges curiatas, said to have been made in the time of Tarquin, the last of the kings, by a pontifex maximus of the name of Sextus or Publius Paplrius. Very few fragments of this collection now remain, and the authenticity of these has been doubted. Mackeld. Rom. Law, … [Read more...]
JUS IN PERSONAM
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...]
JUS COGENS
Principles of international law that are fundamental and cannot be ignored by any country, for example, intentional murder. … [Read more...]
JUS FECIALE
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...]
JUS IN RE
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...]