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jus

[juhs, yoos] / dʒʌs, jus /


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In fact, more than 30 countries practise automatic "jus soli" and without restriction in almost all cases.

From BBC Aug. 7, 2026

While the United States is among a smaller group of countries that recognize jus soli, it is not alone in doing so.

From Salon May 24, 2026

She has a firm idea about the distinction between two very different theories of citizenship: jus soli, based on soil, and jus sanguinis, based on descent.

From Slate Apr. 1, 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

We sat down frequently to coq au vin, prime ribs au jus, and cotelette Milanese with all the trimmings.

From "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" by Maya Angelou

"Arma in armatos sumere jura sinunt—the possessor may use violence to maintain his possession, but not to recover that of which he has been deprived."

From Doom Castle by Neil Munro

The power of chartering corporations belonged also to subjects who had jura regalia, e.g. the bishops of Durham granted a charter of incorporation to the city of Durham in 1565, 1602 and 1780.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 4 "Coquelin" to "Costume" by Various

I send you a distich on the Lord Coke—   "Jus condere Cocus potuit, sed condere jure   Non potuit; potuit condere jura cocis."

From Literary Character of Men of Genius Drawn from Their Own Feelings and Confessions by Isaac Disraeli

The Crown also reserved in most cases its jura regalia or regalitates, such as mines and minerals, lands for military or defensive purposes, oak timber and masts for the building of the royal ships.

From Lord Elgin by Sir John George Bourinot

The principal natives are sometimes called sacchus and sometimes jura.

From De Orbe Novo, Volume 1 (of 2) The Eight Decades of Peter Martyr D'Anghera by Francis Augustus MacNutt




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