Also known as: juris · jus · rights
Written by attorneys · grounded in primary & secondary sources — see below
A Latin term for rights. It encompasses legal entitlements or prerogatives, including those in personam or in rem and historical categories such as royal or fiscal rights.
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Jada Jones signs a binding contract to purchase land from Jacobs Shipping. Before closing a fire damages the property. Jada asserts her jura in the land under equitable conversion so that risk of loss shifts to her as the equitable owner.
Javier Jimenez retains counsel to defend a high-profile case. The lawyer proposes an agreement granting media rights to a book about the representation. The proposal violates the lawyer's duty not to acquire such jura before the representation ends.
Jose Jimenez serves as both general and limited partner in Jennings Forge. When acting in the general partner role he exercises the jura and duties of a general partner while retaining separate limited partner rights under the statute.
Jasmine Jordan and her spouse execute a marital property agreement. They allocate jura and obligations in all property acquired during the marriage regardless of location or timing of acquisition.
Jacqueline Juarez signs a premarital agreement without independent counsel. The agreement fails to provide plain-language notice of the marital jura being waived so a court later refuses to enforce the waiver provision.
June Jiang executes a written agreement before marriage waiving her right of election and homestead allowance. The agreement validly modifies those jura and remains enforceable without separate consideration.
Jura is the plural form of jus and denotes rights or legal entitlements. It appears in phrases identifying specific categories of rights such as jura in rem or historical royal prerogatives.
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…to be independent. The applicants conceive themselves to be duly appointed justices and believe it their duty to maintain their rights and not to suffer them to be violated by the hand of power. The cause though seemingly trivial is important in principle. It only remains to consider whether a mandamus to compel delivery…