JUS
[Latin, right; justice; law; the whole body of law;
also a right.] The term is used in two meanings:
Jus means law, considered in the abstract; that
is, as distinguished from any specific enactment,
which we call, in a general sense, the law. Or it
means the law taken as a system, an aggregate, a
whole. Or it may designate some one particular
system or body of particular laws; as in the phrases
jus civile, jus gentium, jus proetorium.
In a second sense, jus signifies a right; that is,
a power, privilege, faculty, or demand inherent in
one person and incident upon another; or a capac-
ity residing in one person of controlling, with the
assent and assistance of the state, the actions of
another. This is its meaning in the expressions jus
