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 to those which are of rare or accidental occurrence. Dig. 1, 3, 3; Broom, Max. 43.