Greek and Roman Antiquities

• Janua a door. Besides being applicable to the doors of apartments in the interior of a house, wh
• Judex JUDICIUM. A Roman magistratus generally did not investigate the facts in dispute in such m
• Judex pedaneus pedaneus This term first occurs in the writings of the Roman classical jurists, being used
• Judicati ACTIO. A defendant who was condemned in an action was under an obligation to satisfy the j
• Judicium publicum publicum The original distinction between civil and criminal jurisdiction at Rome, though
• Jugerum or JUGUS (the latter form, as a neuter noun of the third declension, is common in the obli
• Jugum signified in general that which joined two things together. It denoted more especially-- 1
• Jure CESSIO IN, was a mode of transferring rights by means of a fictitious suit, and so far res
• Jurgium has been thought to be a contracted form of juridicium; it is doubtless derived from jus,
• Juridici With a view of making the administration of justice more directly dependent on the emperor
• Jurisconsulti or JURECONSULTI. For some considerable time after the enactment of the Twelve Tables, the
• Jurisdictio is the technical term to denote the power which belonged to a Roman king and magistratus o
• Jus has the following legal senses: 1, law, or a system of law; 2, the place of declaring the…
• Jus aelianum aelianum was a compilation by Sextus Aelius Paetus, called Catus the shrewd (Gel. 4.1.20),
• Jus civile flavianum civile flavianum Appius Claudius Caecus, who was censor B.C. 312, is said to have drawn up
• Jus civile papirianum civile papirianum is said by Pomponius to have been a compilation of the Leges Regiae or l
• Jusjurandum an oath. Greek An oath is an appeal to some superior being, calling on him to bear witness
• Jussu ACTIO QUOD. A paterfamilias or a master of a slave who gave an order (jussus) authorising
• Justitium Justitium (derived from Juris statio) was the name given to the suspension of certain publ
• Juvenalia or JUVENALES LUDI (Ἰουβενάλια ὥσπερ τινὰ νεανισκεύματα), were scenic games instituted by N