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The following 36 entries include the term jus.
jus ecclesiasticum
noun: ecclesiastical law
jus edicendi
noun: a right belonging to the curule aediles, praetors, and quaestors and presidents in the provinces of making edicts
jus fruendi
noun: a right of enjoyment of another's property without destroying its substance
jus honorarium
noun: the law established by the edicts of the magistrates consisting chiefly of the praetorian law and the law of the curule aediles
jus in personam
noun: a right of legal action against or to enforce a legal duty of a particular person or group of persons compare jus in rem
jus in rem
noun: a right enforceable against anyone in the world interfering with that right founded on some specific relationship, status, or particular property accorded legal protection from interference by anyone (as the right to be free from slander or to enjoy one's property)
jus inter gentes
nounjus Latii
noun: the right of a person (as a Latin not a citizen of Rome) who has certain rights of or to Roman citizenship
jus naturae
nounjus naturale
nounjus personarum
noun: the law of persons occupying special relations to one another (as parent and child, husband and wife, guardian and ward) or of persons with limited rights (as aliens, minors, slaves, incompetent or insane persons)
jus postliminii
nounjus primae noctis
nounjus proprietatis
noun: a right based on ownership of property irrespective of actual possession
jus relictae
noun: a widow's right to a share in the free movable estate of her deceased husband to the extent of one third if there are children and otherwise one half
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