noun
pl. ju′ra- law; the whole body of law
- a particular system of law
- a legal principle, right, or power
Origin of jus
L: see jury
noun
- Jus is French and is defined as the juice that is made with meat stock.
An example of jus is a sliced beef sandwich that comes with a dipping sauce of broth called an au jus sandwich.
- Jus is defined as law or a legal principle.
An example of jus is jus cogens "compelling law", meaning international law that cannot be disregarded by a nation.
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Sentence Examples
- After his death, his pupils published a Philosophic Generalis (1770) and a Jus Naturae (1765), which he had left in manuscript.
- Though the jus divinum of presbytery is not now insisted upon as in some former times, Presbyterians claim that it is the church polity set forth in the New Testament.
- Both jus naturale and lex naturalis are as early as Cicero, and the jus gentium of the Roman lawyers is earlier still.
- Locke had spent some years in Holland, the country of Grotius, who, with help from other great lawyers, and under a misapprehension as to the meaning of the Roman jus gentium, shaped modern concepts of international law by an appeal to law of nature.
- Iv.) and Jus eccles.
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