Latin: The right of a third party. A tenant, bailee, etc., who pleads that the title is in some person other than his landlord, bailor, etc., is said to set up a jus tertii. Jus testamentorom pertinet ordinario. … [Read more...]

An old general term for all things appertaining to justice. … [Read more...]

In Roman law. A name applied to the Roman law of wills, in the time of Justinian, on account of its threefold derivation, viz., from the praetorian edict, from the civil law, and from the imperial constitutions. Maine, Anc. Law, 207. Jus triplex est,proprietatis, posses sionis, et possibilitatis. Right is threefold,of property, of possession, and of possibility. … [Read more...]

The old form of justice. Blount … [Read more...]

In Roman law. A right or privilege allowed to the parent of three or more children. 2 Kent, Comm. 85; 2 Bl. Comm. 247. These privileges were an exemption from the trouble of guardianship, priority in bearing offices', and a treble proportion of corn. Adams, Rom. Ant. (Am. Ed.) 227. … [Read more...]