Blacks Law Dict. 1st ed

JUDAISMUS

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JOINT TRESPASSERS

count of the weather, etc. In the system of double-entry book-keeping, the journal is an account-book into which are transcribed, daily or at other intervals, the items entered upon the day-book, for more convenient posting into the ledger. In the usage of legislative bodies, the journal is a daily record of the proceedings of either house. It is kept by the clerk, and in it are entered the appoint ments and actions of committees, introduc tion of bills, motions, votes, resolutions, etc., in the order of their occurrence. JOURNEY. The original signification of this word was a day's travel. It is now applied' to a travel by land from place to place, without restriction of time. But, when thus applied, it is employed to desig nate a travel which is without the ordinary habits, business, or duties of the person, to a distance from his home, and beyond the cir cle of his friends or acquaintances. 53 Ala. 521. JOURNEY-HOPPERS. In English law. Regrators of yarn. 8 Hen. VI. c. 5. JOURNEYMAN. A workman hired by the day, or other given time. JOURNEYS ACCOUNTS. In English practice. The name of a writ (now obsolete) which might be sued out where a former writ had abated without the plaintiff's fault. The length of time allowed for taking it out depended on the length of the journey the party must make to reach the court; whence the name. JUBERE. Lat. In the civil law. To order, direct, or command. Calvin. The yford. jubeo, (I order,) in a will, was called a " v\ ord of direction," as distinguished from "precatory words." Cod. 6, 43, 2. To assure or promise. To decree or pass a law. JUBILACION. In Spanish law. The privilege of a public officer to be retired, on account of infirmity or disability, retaining the rank and pay of his office (or part of the same) after twenty years of public service, and on reaching the age of fifty. JUDJEUS, JUDEUS. Lat. A Jew. JUDAISMUS. The religion and rites of the Jews. Du Cange. A quarter set apart for residence of Jews. A usurious rate of interest. 1 Mon. Angl. 839; 2 Mon. Angl. 10, 665. Sex marcus sterlingorum ad ac quietandam terram prcedictum deJudaismo, inquofuit impignorata* Du Cange. An

one and the same conveyance, commencing at one and the same time, and held by one and the same undivided possession. 2 Bl. Cemm. 180. JOINT TRESPASSERS. Two or more who unite in committing a trespass. JOINT TRUSTEES. Two or more per sons who are intrusted with property for the benefit of one or more others. JOINTRESS, JOINTURESS. A wo man who has an estate settled on her by her husband, to hold during her life, if she sur vive him. Co. litt. 46. JOINTURE. A freehold estate in lands or tenements secured to the wife, and to take effect on the decease of the husband, and to continue during her life at the least, unless she be herself the cause of its determination. 21 Me. 369. A competent livelihood of freehold for the wife of lands and tenements to take effect presently in possession or profit, after the de cease of the husband, for the life of the wife at least. Co. Litt. 366; 2 Bl. Com in. 137. A jointure strictly signifies a joint estate limited to both husband and wife, and such was its original form; but, in its more usual form, it JS a sole estate limited to the wife only, expectant upon a life-estate in the hus band. 2 Bl. Comm. 137; 1 Steph. Comm. 255. JONCARIA, or JUNCARIA. Land where rushes grow. Co. Litt. 5a. JORNALE. As much land as could be plowed in one day. Spelman. JOUR. A French word, signifying "day." It is used in our old law-books; as "tout jours," forever. JOUR EN BANC. A day in bane. Dis tinguished from "jour en pays," (a day in the country,) otherwise called "jour en nisi prius. n JOUR IN COURT. In old practice. Day in court; day to appear in court; appear ance day. "Every process gives the defend ant a day in court." Hale, Anal. § 8. JOURNAL. A daily book; a book in which entries are made or events recorded from day to day. In maritime law, the jour nal (otherwise called "log" or "log-book") is a book kept on every vessel, which con tains a brief record of the events and oc currences of each day of a voyage, with the nautical observations, course of the ship, ac

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