jus privatum

jus privatum
/jas praveytam/ Private law; the law regulating the rights, conduct, and affairs of individuals, as distinguished from "public" law, which relates to the constitution and functions of government and the administration of criminal justice. The right of a person acquiring title to lands under navigable waters to fill in such lands, making upland out of foreshore, and thus extinguishing jus publicum, subject to right of sovereign to make public improvements on tide water for benefit of commerce. Arnold's Inn, Inc. v. Morgan, 63 Misc.2d 279, 310 N.Y.S.2d 541, 547. Also private ownership, or the right, title, or dominion of a private owner, as distinguished from "jus publicum, " which denotes public ownership, or the ownership of property by the government, either as a matter of territorial sovereignty or in trust for the benefit and advantage of the general public. In this sense, a state may have a double right in given property, e.g., lands covered by navigable waters within its boundaries, including both "jus publicum," a sovereign or political title, and "jus privatum," a proprietary ownership

Black's law dictionary. . 1990.

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