[485]. See e.g. Mirror of Justices (Selden Society’s Publications, vol. vii.), passim.
[486]. D. 1. 1. 11.
[487]. Jus is also used in various other derivative senses of less importance: e.g., a law court (in jus vocare), legal or rightful power or authority (sui juris esse: jus et imperium), legal decision, judgment (jura dicere). See Nettleship, Contributions to Latin Lexicography, sub voc. Jus.
[488]. See Clark, Practical Jurisprudence, p. 18. We owe to Professor Clark a very careful and scholarly investigation of the whole subject-matter of this inquiry. See also Skeat’s Etymological English Dictionary, sub voc. just; Manuel des Antiquités Romaines, vol. 6, part i. p. 352, note 4: Miller’s Data of Jurisprudence, p. 33.
[489]. Nettleship, Contributions to Latin Lexicography, sub voc. Mos.
[490]. Practical Jurisprudence, p. 51.
[491]. Dike is said to be derived from DIK, to show, point out, make known, this being itself a form of DA, to know; hence, practical knowledge, skill, the way a thing is done, custom. This suggestion might be considered ingenious, rather than convincing, were it not for the singular fact that the Teutonic languages exhibit a precisely similar process of thought. The English substantive wise means way or manner, and is yet the same word as wise, the adjective, and is derived from the root WID, to know. See also with the German Weise (way), weisen(to point out, direct), weise (wise). See Curtius, Grundzüge der Griechischen Etymologie, sub voc. dike. Skeat, sub voc. Wise, and list of Aryan Roots, 145 and 372.
[492]. Skeat, Aryan Roots, 162.
[493]. On the whole matter see Maine, Ancient Law, ch. 1; Clark, Practical Jurisprudence, p. 42; Liddell and Scott, sub voc. themis; Hirzel, Themis Dike und Verwandtes (1907).
[494]. Manuel des Antiquités Romaines, vol. 6, part i. p. 351; Nettleship, sub voc. Lex.