JUS ANTIQUUM

JUS ANTIQUUM jus antiquum (j[schwa]s an-tI-kw[schwa]m). [Latin] Roman law. The old law. ¡ª Also termed jus vetus. Cf. JUS NOVUM. ¡°In the later Empire (which dates from the fourth century) there were two groups of sources of law: first, the ¡®jus vetus’, or ¡®jus’ simply, i.e. the old traditional law, the development of which was […]