jus
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The idea that nearly everyone born on the land became a citizen was so pervasive as to have a name: jus soli, or “the right of the soil.”
From Slate ● Aug. 11, 2026
Options range from $19 wagyu oxtail patties to a $48 grilled pork chop served with crab butter, grilled mango and a jus flavored with kuchela, a Trinidadian green-mango relish.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 30, 2026
“A dollar, maybe eighty cents. Just the Italian beef jus poured over bread.”
From Salon ● Dec. 7, 2025
It’s exactly what it sounds like: toasted French or Italian bread soaked in the rich, savory au jus of an Italian beef sandwich.
From Salon ● Dec. 7, 2025
“She say Harla O’Horror so perfec, she so fine, she don’t havta be comin aroun at night to supervise. She say jus as soon Harla be openin, she leavin for a vacation in Califonia. Whoa!”
From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole
The Popes had not been fettered, habent omnia jura in suo scrinio; and their jurisdiction in England had been transferred whole and entire to the King.
From Henry VIII. by A. F. (Albert Frederick) Pollard
Society implies government, and whatever its origins or its forms there "must be in all of them a supreme, irresistible, absolute, uncontrolled authority, in which the jura summa imperii, or rights of sovereignty reside."
From Political Thought in England from Locke to Bentham by Harold Joseph Laski
He now received appeals from some of his devoted caliphs to undertake a fresh campaign, especially from the loyal and chivalrous Ben Salem, who dwelt in the gorges of the Djur jura Mountains.
From The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 17 by Charles F. (Charles Francis) Horne
The southern coast, as we have already said, consists of a long narrow strip of argillaceous schist and detritus, with a very steep inclination, and overtopped throughout its length by high cliffs of jura limestone.
From Travels in the Steppes of the Caspian Sea, the Crimea, the Caucasus, &c. by Xavier Hommaire de Hell
In all resolutions relating to fundamental laws, the organic regulations of the Confederation, the jura singulorum and matters of religion, unanimity German Confederation established was required.
From A History of the Nineteenth Century, Year by Year Volume Two (of Three) by Edwin Emerson
