jus-, just-, jur-

1. The solemn repudiation, abandonment, or renunciation by or upon oath; often the renunciation of citizenship or some other right or privilege.
2. A denial, disavowal, or renunciation under oath.

In common ecclesiastical language this term is restricted to the renunciation of heresy made by the penitent heretic on the occasion of his reconciliation with the Catholic Church.

1. To renounce, reject, or give up rights or allegiance on oath: "The man said he would abjure his citizenship if his country continued with its policies of war instead of negotiating peaceful solutions to international problems."
2. To repudiate, renounce or recant publicly; to disclaim: "He abjured his life of bad eating and drinking habits."
3. To give up (rights, allegiance, etc.) on oath; to renounce; to give up (opinions) publicly; to recant.

1. Someone who formally rejects or disavows a formerly held belief, usually under pressure.
2. Anyone who implies a firm and final rejecting or abandoning of a former belief or postion, often made under oath.

1. A disavowal or taking back of a previous assertion.
2. The act of abjuring; renunciation upon oath; as "an abjuration of the realm," by which a person swears to leave the country, and never to return.

It is a reference also for the oath of renunciation. Formerly in England, felons, taking refuge in a church, and confessing their guilt, could not be arrested and tried, but might save their lives by "abjuring the realm"; that is by taking an oath to leave the kingdom forever.

3. A rejection or denial with solemnity; a total abandonment; as "an abjuration of heresy."

1. Earnestly or solemnly entreating; such as, in adjuratory terms.
2. Containing a solemn charge or command.

1. To command or to charge solemnly, often under oath or penalty.
2. To appeal to earnestly: "The judge adjured him to answer truthfully."
3. To charge, to bind, or to command earnestly and solemnly, often under oath or the threat of a penalty.
4. To entreat or to request earnestly or solemnly.

1. Someone who charges, binds, or commands earnestly and solemnly, often under oath or the threat of a penalty.
2. To entreat or to request earnestly or solemnly.

We dare defend or maintain our rights.

State motto of Alabama, U.S.A. This may be calling attention to the state's dedication to protecting its rights against infringement by the federal government.

1. A supposed magic or supernatural occurrence achieved by pronouncing a spell or chanting.
2. A word or phrase that a magician says when casting a spell.
3. A summoning or invoking, usually of a supposed supernatural force, by pronouncing a sacred name.
4. Etymologically, from Latin conjurationem; literally, "a swearing together, conspiracy".

1. To perform illusions and magic tricks that require agile hand movements, usually for entertainment.
2. To call upon or order a supposed supernatural force or being by reciting a spell.
3. To change or influence something by reciting a spell or invocation.
4. Etymologically from Latin conjurare; literally, "to swear together, to conspire".

1. An entertainer who performs tricks involving manual agility and the illusion of magic.
2. A magician, or someone who summons supposed supernatural forces or beings.
3. A person who conjures spirits or practices magic; magician.
4. Someone who practices legerdemain; a juggler.

1. Variant spelling of conjurer.
2. Someone who performs magic tricks; a magician.
3. A sorcerer or sorceress.

Body of law.

The collected laws of a nation, state, or city are its corpus iuris. Church law is corpus iuris canonici while civil law is corpus iuris civilis.

Sanctioned by law.

Let justice be done though the heavens fall.

This maxim promotes the conception that the law must be followed precisely (blindly), regardless of any extenuating circumstances including finding out that the convicted person is innocent. It is apparently based on a situation presented by Seneca, "The Younger" (Lucius Annaeus Seneca, c. 4 B.C.-A.D. 65), who tells us about a man who was supposed to be hanged for murder, but he was sent by the executioner to a government official by the name of Piso because the purported victim appeared in public alive.

Piso would not change the sentence of death. Instead, he ordered all three men to be hanged: the convicted criminal because the sentence had been passed, the executioner because he was derelict in his duty by not going ahead with the execution, and the assumed victim because he was considered the cause of the death of other two innocent men.