KFLCC Kingdom Law 2nd Ed.

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JUDEX

JOINTURE

A competent livelihood of freehold for the wife of lands and tenements to take effect presently in possession or profit, after the decease of the husband, for the life of the wife at least. Co. Litt. 36&; 2 Bl. Comm. 137. See Fellers v. Fellers, 54 Neb. 694, 74 N. W. 1077; Saunders v. Saunders, 144 Mo. 482, 46 S. W. 428; Graham v. Graham, 67 Hun, 329, 22 N. Y. Supp. 299. A jointure strictly signifies a joint estate limited to both husband and wife, and such was its original form; but, in its more us ual form, it is a sole estate limited to the wife only, expectant upon a life-estate in the husband. 2 Bl. Comm. 137; 1 Steph. Comm. 255. In old English law. Land where rushes grow. Co. Litt. 5a. JORNAXE. In old English law. 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 banc. DistinguisE ed from "jour en pavs," (a day in the country.) otherwise called "jour en nisi prtus." — Jour in court. In old practice. Day in court; day to appear in court: appearance day. "Every process gives the defendant a day in court." Hale, Anal. § & 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 contains a brief record of the events and occurrences of each day of a voyage, with the nautical observations, course of the ship, account of the weather, etc. In the system of double entry book-keeping, the journal is an ac count-book into which are transcribed, daily or at other intervals, the items entered up on the day-book, for more convenient post ing into the ledger. In the usage of legisla tive 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 ap pointments and actions of committees, in troduction of bills, motions, votes, resolu tions, etc., in the order of their occurrence. See Oakland Pav. Co. v. Hilton, 69 Cal. 479, 11 Pac. 3; Montgomery Beer Bottling Works r. Gaston, 126 Ala. 425, 28 South. 497. 51 L. R. A. 306. 85 Am. St Rep. 42; Martin v. Com., 107 Pa. 190. JOURNEY. The original signification of this word was a day's travel. It is now ap plied to a travel by land from place to place, without restriction of time. But, when thus applied, it is employed to designate a travel which is without the ordinary habits, busi ness, or duties of the person, to a distance JONCARIA, or JUNCARIA. JOURNAL.

from his home, and beyond the circle of his friends or acquaintances. Gholson v. State, 53 Ala. 521, 25 Am. Rep. 652. JOURNEY-HOPPERS. In English law. Regrators of yarn. 8 Hen. VI. c 5. JOURNEYMAN. A workman hired by the day, or other given time. Hart v. Ald ridge, 1 Cowp. 56; Butler v. Clark, 46 Ga. 468. 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 word juoeo, (I order,) in a will, was called a "word 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. JUD^EUS, 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. Bex marcus sterllngorum ad ao quietandam terram prcedictum de Judaismo, in quo fuit impignorata. Du Cange. An income anciently accruing to the king from the Jews. Blount. JUDEX. Lat. In Roman law. A pri vate person appointed by the praetor, with the consent of the parties, to try and decide a cause or action commenced before him. He received from the praetor a written for mula instructing him as to the legal prin ciples according to which the action was to be judged. Calvin. Hence the proceedings before him were said to be in judicio, as those before the praetor were said to be in jure. In later and modern civil law. A judge in the modern sense of the term. In old English law. A juror. A judge, in modern sense, especially—as opposed to justicianus, i. e., a common-law judge—to denote an ecclesiastical judge. Bract fols. 401, 402. —Judex a quo. In modern civil law. The judge from whom, as judex ad quern is the