Category: J

A jurist; a person skilled in the science of law, particularly of international or public law

Lat In Roman

LaL of rlght; of law

Lat Relating to the courts or to the administration of justice; jurldi-cal; lawful. Dies juridicus, a lawful day for the transaction of business in court; a day on which the courts are open

Relating to administration of justice, or office of a judge

Lat By right; in right; by the law

In Scotch law. A description of caution (security) some-times offered in a suspension or advocation where the complainer is not in circumstan-ces to offer any better. BelL

A jaror; a compurgator, (q. v

The act of swearing; the administration of an oath

In eld English law. A jury of twelve men sworn. Especlally, a jury of

The clause written at the foot of an affidavit, stating when, where, and be-fore whom such affidavit was sworn. See

Lat To swear; to take an oath

Lat. In the civil law. An oath

Younger. This has been held to be no part of a man’s name, but an addition by use, and a convenient distinction be-tween a father and son of the same name. Cobh ?. Lucas, 15 Pick. (Mass.) 9; People ?. Collins, 7 Johns. (N. Y.) 552; Padgett v. Lawrence, 10 Paige (N. Y.) 177, 40 […]

In old English law. To join the duellum; to engage in the combat Fleta, lib. 1, c. 21, |10

In old English law. The soil where rushes grow. Co. Litt 5a; Cow-ell

In the civil law. Beasts of harden; animals used for carrying bur

In old Scotch law. An ox used for tillage. 1 Pitc. Crim. Tr. pt. 2, p. 89

In Spanish law. A trial or suit white, New Recop. b. 3, tit. 4, c. 1

Lat In the civil law. A yoke; a measure of land; ns much land as a yoke of oxen could plow in a day. Nov. 17, c. 8

In old records. A cut-throat or murderer. CowelL

An acre. Co. Litt. 5b. As much as a yoke (jugum) of oxen could plow in one day

In French law. A judge

Lat Judicial authority or jurisdiction; a court or tribunal; a judicial heariug or other proceeding; a verdict or judgment; a proceeding before a judex or judge. State v. whitford, 54 wis. 150, 11 N. W. 424

Lat. A caution, or security, given ln Scotch courts for the defend-ant to abide judgment within the jurisdiction. Stlm. Law Gloss

The name commonly glven to the act of congress of September 24, 1789, (1 St. at.Large, 73,) by which the system of federal courts was organized, and their powers and jurisdictlon defined

Belongiug to the office of a judge; as judicial authority

Lat. In Roman law. Judl-cial proceedings; trials. Judicio publica, criminal trials. Dig. 48, 1

Lat In the civil law. Select or selected judices or judges; those who were used in criminal causes, and between whom and modern jurors many points of resemblance have been noticed. 3 Bl. Comm. 366

Lat In the civlI law. The ordinary judices appointed by the prtetor to try causes

Lat In the

1. The state or profes-sion of those officers who are employed ln administering justice; the judiciary

Lat

Lat. In the civil law. judging; the pronouncing of sentence, after hearing a cause. Hallifax, Clvll Law, b. 3, c. 8, no. 7

Lat In the clvll and old English law. To judge; to decide or de-termine Judiclally; to give judgment or sentence

A judgment

The official and authentic decision of a court of justice upon the respective rights nnd claims of the parties to an action or suit therein litigated and sub-mltted to its determination. People v. He-bel. 19 Colo. App. 523, 76 Pac. 550; Bullock v. Bullock, 52 N. J. Eq. 561, 30 AU. 676, 27 L. It. […]

A Judg-ment against a particular person, as distin-guished from a judgment against a thing or a right or status. The former class of judg-ments are conclusive only upon parties and privies; the latter upon all the world. See next title

A Cheshire juryman. Jacob

A public ofiicer, appointed to preside and to administer the law in a court of justice; the chief member of a court, and

Lat. In Roman law. A private person appointed by the prtetor, with the consent of the parties, to try and decide a cause or action commenced before him. He received from the praetor a written for-mula instructing him as to.the legal prln-clples recording to which the action was to be judged. Calvin. Hence the proceedings […]

Lat. A Jew

The religion and rites of the Jews. Dn Cange. A quarter set apart for residence of Jews. A usurious rate of interest. 1 Mon. Angl. 839 ; 2 Mon. Angl. 10,665. Sex marcus sterlingorum ad ac-quietandam terrain proedictum de Judaismo, in quo fuit impignorata. Du Cange. An Income anciently accruing to the king from the […]

In Spanish law. The privilege of a public officer to be retired, on account of infirmity or disability, retaining the rank and pay of his office (or part of the same) after twenty years of public service, and on reaching the age of fifty

A workman hired by the -day, or other given time. Hart v. Ald-rldge, 1 Cowp. 56; Butler v. Clark, 46 Ga. 468

In English practice. The name of a writ (now obsolete) whlch might be sued out where a former writ had abated without the plaintiff’s fault. The length of time allowed for taking it out depended on the length of the journey the party must make to reach the court; whence the name

In English law. Regrators of yam. 8 Hen. VI. c. 5

In old English law. As much land as could be plowed ln one day. Spelman

or JUNCARIA. In- old

A freehold estate in lands or tenements secured to the wife, and to take effect on the decease of the husband, and to continue during her life at the least, unless she be herself the cause of Its de4 termination. Vance v. Vance, 21 Me. 860