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JUST TITLE

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See color of title or colour of title. The name that is given to the title of a property you have gotten from the owner and it may seem to be perfect but it is not absolute or perfect. See colour of title. … [Read more...]

JUS RERUM

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The law of things. The law regulating the rights and powers of persons over things; how property is acquired, enjoyed, and transferred. Jus respicit sequitatem. Law regards equity. Co. Litt 246; Broom, Max. 151. … [Read more...]

JUSTA

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In old English law. A certain measure of liquor, being as much as was sufficient to drink at once. Mon. Angl. t 1 c. 149. … [Read more...]

JUS SCRIPTUM

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In Roman law. Written law. Inst. 1, 2, 3. All law that was actually committed to writing, whether it had originated by enactment or by custom, in contradistinction to such parts of the law of custom as were not committed to writing. Mackeld. Rom. Law,126. In English law. Written law, or statute law, otherwise called "lex scripta" as distinguished from the common law, "lex … [Read more...]

JUSTA CAUSA

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In the civil law. Latin meaning a just cause; a lawful ground; a legal transaction of some kind. … [Read more...]

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