Glossary of Legal Terms Beginning with J

Duhaime's Law Dictionary

Jus Spatiandi Et Manendi: Latin: the right to stray and remain.
Just Cause: Employment law: misconduct of an employee, or some other event relevant to the employee, which justifies the immediate termination of the employment contract.
Justice: A state of affairs in which conduct or action is both fair and right, given the circumstances.
Justice of the Peace: A judicial officer with a limited role, usually in criminal law, to perform minor judicial tasks such as authorizing search warrants and approving criminal charges.
Justiciability: A necessary prerequisite of a matter put to a court of law for resolution; that an actual and substantial controversy be at hand.
Justiciar: An obsolete judicial position of English nobility; that of chief justice of the realm.
Justifiable Homicide: The blameless killing of another human being.
Justification: An answer or defence to an allegation of wrongful conduct that the act or omission, though admittedly committed, was not wrongful in all the circumstances.
Just War: A war which is primarily defensive or retributive.
Jus Vitae Necisque: Latin: Power of life and death.

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