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Definition of Jus civile
1. Noun. The legal code of ancient Rome; codified under Justinian; the basis for many modern systems of civil law.
Examples of category: Addiction, Novate, Stipulate
Generic synonyms: Legal Code
Lexicographical Neighbors of Jus Civile
Literary usage of Jus civile
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Roman Law in the Modern World by Charles Phineas Sherman (1922)
"§40 The jus civile was for citizens only; it was administered at Rome by the city
praetor (praetor urbanus) created BC Character of the jus civile. ..."
2. Lectures on Jurisprudence, Or, The Philosophy of Positive Law by John Austin (1885)
"Although that older portion of it, Law for a which was marked with the distinctive
name of jus civile, was Recht, or still the peculiar law of ..."
3. The Law of Freedom and Bondage in the United States by John Codman Hurd (1858)
"The distinction next drawn between jus civile and jus gentium, introduces a law
of nations, as a source of the private law, in a sense more nearly ..."
4. The Institutes: A Textbook of the History and System of Roman Private Law by Rudolf Sohm, Bernhard Erwin Grüber (1907)
"The former kind of law, which was specifically Roman—the civil law of the old
type— was now called jus civile in the special and narrower sense of the term, ..."
5. A History of Diplomacy in the International Development of Europe by David Jayne Hill (1905)
"But it is the Civil Law of Rome, the jus civile, which jus civile marks the main
current of Roman jurisprudence, that great system of law which ultimately ..."
6. Outlines of Roman Law: Comprising Its Historical Growth and General Principles by William Carey Morey (1914)
"Relations of the Jus Gentium to the jus civile.—The earlier jus gentium, ...
The relation which this new body of law sustained to the jus civile, ..."
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