jus

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

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

From BBC ● Aug. 7, 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

And after a local screwpine sorbet palate cleanser, Maldivian chefs slice up Wagyu tenderloin alongside baby leeks, eggplant, fennel pollen and coconut jus.

From Salon ● Dec. 27, 2025

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

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

"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

Nowhere else throughout Scotland could a subject of the King exercise jura regalia.

From Chronicles of Strathearn by W. B. Macdougall

Durham was the solitary surviving instance in England of the county palatinate, so called because the rulers had in their counties jura regalia as fully as the king had in his palace.

From England in America, 1580-1652 by Lyon Gardiner Tyler

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