- Jus
- Latin: word which, in Roman law, meant the law or a right.
Also spelt ius in some English translations.
Broom describes a jus as:
"... the legal authority to do or to demand something."
Bouvier adds an important distinction:
"In the Roman law, the word had two distinct meanings. It was either a body of law ... or an individual right."
For example, public law was called jus publicum and private law was called jus privatum.
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