GENUS

In the civil law. A general cla or division, comprising several species. In to to Jure oeneri per speciem aerogatur, et illud poti imum lwbetur quod ad speciem directum est, throughout the law, the species takes from the genus, and that is most particularly regarded which refers to the species. Dig. 50, 17, 80. A man's lineage, or direct descendants. In logic, it is the first of the universal ideas, and is when the idea is so common · that 1t extends to other ideas which are also universal; e. g., incorporeal.hereditament is gen'U8 with respect to a rent, which is specie,. Woolley, Introd. Log. ~; 1 Mill, Log. 133. [s. 545]