jus

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"We'll have jus' heaps of things when we get to Richmon'--jus' heaps--an' then She stopped abruptly, lifting her head and listening, in the manner of a sheep dog scenting danger from afar.

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  1. A Middle English form of juice.
  2. Law; right; particularly, what is declared to be law or right by a judge; matter of rule administered by a magistrate.
  3. Jus civile the interpretation of the laws of the Twelve Tables, and now of the whole system of the Roman law. Rapalje and Lawrence.

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  1. Latin, law, right: see just, justice, etc., jural, jurist, etc.
 

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