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Damnum absque injuria

so after the twenty years would be actionable by virtue of the Prescription Act. See PRESCRIP-TION and UBI JUS, IBI REMEDIUM.

Damnum absque injuri'

so after the twenty years would be actionable by virtue of the Prescription Act. See PRESCRIP-TION and UBI JUS, IBI REMEDIUM.

Droit d'aubaine

Droit d'aubaine [jus albinatus, Lat., i.e., alibi natus, born elsewhere], in old French law, a right of the king, entitling him, at the death of an alien, to all such alien was worth, unless he had...

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Folc-right, or folk-right

Folc-right, or folk-right, the jus commune, or common Law, mentioned in the laws of King Edward the Elder, declaring the same equal right,

Free-board, or freebord

cites the same passage from the Monasticon. A small strip of land (usu. 2' feet wide and lying just outside a force. That the owner of the fenced property was allowed to claim and use, Black's Law

Judge

the Judicature Act, 1873, ten years' standing at the Bar for a judge of the High Court of Justice, and fifteen years' standing at the Bar or one year's service as a judge of the High Court

Natural justice

Natural justice, the aim of the rules of natural justice is to secure justice or to put it negatively to

Postliminium

Postliminium, the return of a person to his own country, after having sojourned abroad. The right of Postliminy (jus post-liminii) is that by virtue of which persons and things taken by an enemy in war are...

Noxa sequitur caput

Noxa sequitur caput. Jus. Civ, (Guilt follows the person.)

Presumptive title

Presumptive title. A barely presumptive title, which is of the very lowest order, arises out of the mere occupation or simple possession of property (jus possessionis, Lat.), without any apparent right, or any pretence of right,...

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