The right of a third party . A tenant, bailee, etc., who pleads that the title is in some person other than his landlord, bailor, etc., is said to set […]
J | Page 15
J
JUS TRIPERTITUM
In Roman law. A name applied to the Roman law of wills, in the time of Justinian, on account of its threefold derivation, viz., from the pra:- torian edict, from […]
JUS TRIUM LIBERORUM
In Roman law. A right or privilege allowed to the parent of three or more children. 2 Kent, Comm. 85; 2 Bl. Comm. 247. These privileges were an exemption from […]
JUS UTENDI
The right to use property without destroying its substance. It is employed in contradistinction to the jus abutendi . 3 Toullier, no. 86.
JUS VENANDI ET PISCANDI
The right of hunting and fishing. Jus vendit quod usns approbavit. El- lesm. Postn. 35. The law dispenses what use has approved.
JUSJURANDUM
Lat. An oath. Jusjurandum inter alios factum neo noccre nec prodesse debet. An oath made between others ought neither to hurt nor profit. 4 Inst. 279.
JUST
Right; in accordance with law and justice. “The words ‘just’ and ‘justly’ do not always mean ‘just’ and ‘justly’ in a moral sense, but they not unfrequently, in their connection […]
JUST CAUSE
A reason that is legally acceptable or sufficient. A request’s just cause is essential to get certain court action. Also known as good cause.
JUST CAUSE CLAUSE
Statement of specific guidelines for disciplining or terminating employees as done by other employers. Common provision in collective bargaining agreements
JUST COMPENSATION
the term used when a payment is given for taking over private property and using it for public use.
JUST DEBTS
the term that applies to the legal and valid obligations owed by a deceased estate.
JUST IN TIME INSTRUCTION
To avoid a time gap and loss of retention, required knowledge and skills are learned for immediate application in this training scheme.
JUST IN TIME MANUFACTURING
For quicker response to customer needs with no large finished goods or goods-in-process inventories, JIT inventory system is applied to production lines.
JUST ON TIME
To achieve uninterrupted single-piece flow through an entire manufacturing process, Just-in-time (JIT) becomes just-on-time, as successive downstream activities immediately follow previous upstream activities.
JUST TITLE
the name that is given to the title of a property you have gotten from the owner and it may seem to be perfect but it is not absolute or […]
JUST VALUE
a term mused in tax practices that is the fair value of property for tax purposes.
JUST-WORLD PHENOMENON
Theory that bad things happen to people due to their previous bad acts. human tendency to rationalize injustice thinking that people will eventually want get what they want because the […]
JUSTA
In old English law . A certain measure of liquor, being as much as was sufficient to drink at once. Mon. Angl. t 1, e. 149.
JUSTA CAUSA
In the civil law . A just cause; a lawful ground; a legal transaction of some kind. Mackeld. Rom. Law,
JUSTICE
Protecting rights and punishing wrongs using fairness. It is possible to have unjust laws, even with fair and proper administration of the law of the land as a way for […]
JUSTICE DEPARTMENT
the name of the federal department that is headed by the attorney general .
JUSTICE EJECTMENT
A statutory proceeding in Vermont, for the eviction of a tenant holding over after termination of the lease or breach of itsconditions. Foss v. Stanton, 76 Vt. 365, 57 Atl. […]
JUSTICE OF THE PEACE
In American law . A judicial officer of inferior rank holding a court not of record, and having (usually) civil jurisdiction of a limited nature, for the trial of minor […]
JUSTICE OF THE PEACE (JP)
Conserving peace, serving as a magistrate , minor or summary offense hearing to determine charges, signing arrest and search warrants, administering oaths, taking statutory declarations , and carrying out civil […]
JUSTICE, n
In jurisprudence . The constant and perpetual disposition to render every man his due. Inst. 1, 1, pr.; 2 Inst. 56. See Borden v. State, 11 Ark. 528, 44 Am. […]