Legal Dictionary of Pakistan

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Est autem jus publicum et privatum quod ex naturalibus praeceptis aut gentium aut civilibus est collectum; et quod in jure scripto jus appellatur, id in lege Angliae rectum esse dicitur

Public and private law is that which is collected either from natural precepts of the (law of) nations or from civil precepts; and that which in the civil law is called jus is said in the law of England to be right. Co. 1Jtt. 558.

Quod in jure scripto jus appellatur, id in lege Angliae rectum esse dicitur

What in the civil law (literally, written law) is called jus, in the law of England is said to be rectum (right).