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The canon law. … [Read more...] about JUS CANONICUM

A juror; one who is impaneled on a jury. … [Read more...] about JURYMAN

Civil law. The system of law peculiar to one state or people. Inst 1, 2, 1. Particularly, in Roman law, the civil law of the Roman people, as distinguished from the jus gentium. The term is also applied to the body of law called, emphatically, the "civil law." The jus civile and the jus gentium are distinguished in this way. All people ruled by statutes and customs use a law … [Read more...] about JUS CIVILE

Lat. In Roman law. Right; justice; law; the whole body of law; also a right. The term is used in two meanings: 1. "Jus" means "law," considered in the abstract; that is, as distinguished from any specific enactment, the science or department of learning, or quasi personified factor in human history or conduct or social development which we call, in a general sense, "the law." … [Read more...] about JUS

Among the Romans the collection of laws which are to be observed among all the members of a nation were so called. It is opposed to jus gentium, which is the law which regulates the affairs of nations among themselves. … [Read more...] about JUS CIVITATIS