JŪS

The law peculiar to the Roman state is sometimes called Jus Civile Romanorum , but more frequently Jus Civile only. The Jus Quiritium is equivalent to the Jus Civile Romanorum . The jus civil e of the Romans is divisible into two parts, jus civile in the narrower sense, and jus pontificium , or the law of religion. This opposition is sometimes expre ed by the words Jus and Fas . The law of religion, or the Jus Pontificium , was under the control of the pontifices, who in fact originally had the control of the whole ma of the law; and it was only after the separation of the jus civile in its wider sense into the two parts of the jus civile, in its narrower sense, and the jus pontificium, that each part had its proper and peculiar limits. Still, even after the separation, there was a mutual relation between these two branches of law; for instance, an adrogatio was not valid by the jus civile unle it was valid by the jus pontificium. Again, jus pontificium, in its wider sense, as the law of religion, had its subdivisions, as into jus augurum, pontificium, .