UNIVERSITAS JURIS

universitas juris (yoo-ni-v[schwa]r-s[schwa]-tas joor-is). [Latin] Roman & civil law. The whole of a person’s rights and liabilities; the totality of a person’s legal relations. “A universitas juris is a collection of rights and duties united by the single circumstance of their having belonged at one time to some one person.” Henry S. Maine, Ancient Law […]