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
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
More than 30 countries - including Canada, Mexico, Malaysia and Lesotho - practise automatic "jus soli", or "right of the soil" without restriction.
From BBC ● Jan. 20, 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
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 Disraeli, Isaac
The corn was ripe when Sapor invaded Mesopotamia, 'cum jura stipulâ flavente turgerent'—a circumstance which, in the latitude of Aleppo, would naturally refer us to the month of April or May.
From The Roman History of Ammianus Marcellinus During the Reigns of the Emperors Constantius, Julian, Jovianus, Valentinian, and Valens by Yonge, Charles Duke
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 Bourinot, John George, Sir
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 Laski, Harold Joseph
The last example was known in 1789, to celebrate the jura of the Prince of Asturia, afterwards the pious and exemplary Ferdinand VII.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 344, June, 1844 by Various
