jus
1 Americannoun
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jura
plural
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a right.
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law as a system or in the abstract.
noun
noun
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a right, power, or authority
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law in the abstract or as a system, as distinguished from specific enactments
noun
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of jus
From the Latin word jūs law, right
Example Sentences
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The principle of birthright citizenship, known in legal terms as "jus soli" or "right of the soil", is enshrined in the 14th Amendment of the US Constitution.
From BBC ● Aug. 7, 2026
And for Barrett, that is the rule of jus soli—the idea that if you’re born in a place and governed by that place, you’re a citizen of that place.
From Slate ● Apr. 1, 2026
Options range from $19 wagyu oxtail patties to a $48 grilled pork chop served with crab butter, grilled mango and a jus flavored with kuchela, a Trinidadian green-mango relish.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 30, 2026
Ireland was the last country in the region to allow unrestricted jus soli.
From BBC ● Feb. 9, 2025
“He was jus tryin’ get home,” Cork said softly.
From "The Boy in the Black Suit" by Jason Reynolds
I send you a distich on the Lord Coke— "Jus condere Cocus potuit, sed condere jure Non potuit; potuit condere jura cocis."
From Literary Character of Men of Genius Drawn from Their Own Feelings and Confessions by Disraeli, Isaac
Nowhere else throughout Scotland could a subject of the King exercise jura regalia.
From Chronicles of Strathearn by Macdougall, W. B.
The southern coast, as we have already said, consists of a long narrow strip of argillaceous schist and detritus, with a very steep inclination, and overtopped throughout its length by high cliffs of jura limestone.
From Travels in the Steppes of the Caspian Sea, the Crimea, the Caucasus, &c. by Hell, Xavier Hommaire de
I pray write me some instructions in your next, how I may deale with him to ouermaster him for I am readie to take paines, te modo jura dantem indigeo, dictatorem exposco.
From Thomas Hariot, the Mathematician, the Philosopher and the Scholar by Stevens, Henry
The Popes had not been fettered, habent omnia jura in suo scrinio; and their jurisdiction in England had been transferred whole and entire to the King.
From Henry VIII. by Pollard, A. F. (Albert Frederick)
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