Legal Dictionary of Pakistan
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Jus vendit quod usus approbavit
The law dispenses what use has approved.
Longum tempus et longus usus qui excedit memoriam hominum suicit pro jure
Long time and long use beyond the memory of men suffice for right.
Magister rerum usus; magistra rerum experientia
Use is the master of things; experience is the mistress of things.
Malus usus est abolendus
An evil custom ought to be abolished.
Omnium rerum quarum usus est, potest esse abusus, virtute solo excepta
Of everything of which there is a use, there can be abuse, virtue alone excepted.
Optimus interpres rerum usus
Usage is the best interpreter of things.
Riparum usus publicus est jure gentium, sicut ipsius luminis
The use of riverbanks is by the law of nations public, like that of the stream itself.
Usus
[Latin "use"] loom.<xn law. 1. The right to use another's property, without the right to the produce (fructus) of the thing. ( Usus was a personal servitude; it gave the holder a right in rem. Cf. USUFRUCT. "It is essentially a fraction of a usufruct, usus without the fructus. In strictness, there was no right to any fruits but this was somewhat relaxed in practice. The usuary of a house might consume the fruits of the gardens in his household, but he might not sell them, as a usufructuary might." W.W. Buckland, A Manual of Roman Private Law 165 (2d ed. 1953). 2. A marriage brought about by the acquisition of marital power (manus) over the wife through an uninterrupted cohabitation of one year with the intention of living as husband and wife. a Usus was the first method of creating a marriage with manus (confarreatio and coemptio being the other two) to pass out of use. Cf. CONFARREATIO; COEMPTIO. "Usus is the acquisition of [power over] a wife by possession and bears the same relation to coemptio as usucapion to a mancipation. A Roman citizen who bought some object of property and got possession of it, but not ownership, because he neglected to go through the mancipation prescribed by jus civile, might nevertheless become owner by usucapion, i.e. lapse of time; thus if the object was a movable, continuous possession for one year made him dominus. In like manner, if a man lived with a woman whom he treated as his wife, but whom he had not married by coemptio (or confarreatio), and the cohabitation lasted without interruption for a year, then at the end of that period the man acquired [power over] the woman as his wife, she passed to him in manum " R.W. Leage, Roman Private Law 100 (C.H. Ziegler ed., 2d ed. 1930).
Usus Feudorum
See FEUDORUM LIBRI.
Usus est dominium fiduciarium
Use is a fiduciary ownership.
Usus fit ex iteratis actibus
Usage arises from repeated acts.
ad pios usus
[law latin] for pious (religious or charitable) uses or purposes. this phrase was used in reference to gifts and bequests.
ancipitis usus
see conditional contraband under contraband.
casus male inclusus
[Latin "case wrongly included"] A situation literally provided for by a statute or contract, but wrongly so because the provision's literal application has unintended consequences.
in pios usus
adv. [Law Latin] Hist. For pious uses; for religious purposes. This phrase referred to property used by, or claimed by, the church, such as the property of an intestate who had no known heirs.
usus bellici
[Latin] Int'l law. Warlike objects or uses. ( This phrase refers to items that, though not inherently of a military nature, are considered contraband because they are used by a belligerent to support its war effort.