JURE

2 definitions found

From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:

  JURE. By law; by right; in right; as, jure civilis, by the civil law; jure 
  gentium, by the law of nations; jure representationis, by right of 
  representation; jure uxoris, in right of a wife. 
  
  



From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:

  JURE, WRIT OF, Engl. law. The name of a writ commanding the defendant to 
  show by what right he demands common of pasture in the land of the 
  complainant, who claims to have a fee in the same. F. N. B. 299.