"Vetus Jus" is a word in LAW AND LEGAL

In the law of estates. Expectation; waiting; suspense; remembrance and contemplation in law. where there ls no person ln existence …

In tbe civil law. A sitecies of right of way, consisting in the right of driving cattle, or a carriage, …

In English law. A pres-tatlon or toll for every anchor cast from a ship in a port; and sometimes, though …

In the civil and old English law. water; sometimes a stream or water-course

In Spanish and Mexican law. Taxes imposed by municipalities on certain articles of merchandise, to defray the general expenses of …

In maritime law. A Spanish term signifying athwart, at right angles, or abeam; sometimes used as descriptive of the position …

In Scotch law. A known term, used to denote one’s whole issue. Ersk. Inst. 3, 8, 48. But it is …

or BANNERET. In English law. A knight made in the field, by the ceremony of cutting off the point of …

In Louisiana. A marine term used to denote a bottom of sand, stone, or rock mixed together and rising towards …

Germ. In European marl-time law. A document furnished by the builder of a vessel, containing a register of her admeasurement, …

In English law. Certaln days in the year (sometimes called “due days”) on which tenants in copyhold were obliged to …

The brother of one's husband or wife; also, the husband of one's sister; sometimes, the husband of one's wife's sister.

In Spanish law. An allotment of land acquired hy conquest, to a horse soldier. It was a strip one hundred …

d by the inhabitants of a manor to their ord, towards the charge of holding a court leet. Bailey, Diet.—Common …

. In crimlnal law. A sudden affray. This word is sometimes applied to any kind of homicide by misad-venture, hut …

In the civU law. A hir-ing. Used generally ln connection with the term locatio, a letting. Locatio ct conductio, (sometimes …

In the clvll law. The inseparable intermixture of property belonging to different owners; it is properly confined to the pouring …

Laws promulgated, i. e., enacted, by the Roman Emperor. They were of various kinds, namely, the fol-lowing: (l) Edicta; (2) …

In English law. A court sometimes appointed by tlie crown to ascertain whether it be proper to resort to extreme …

Lat In the civil law. A separation or division Into parts; also an alienation or sale. Sometimes applled to the …