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jus ter·tii /-'tər-shē-ˌī, -'ter-, -shē-ˌē/ n [Latin]: a right of a third party (as to property in another's possession); also: the right to assert the rights of another in a lawsuit◇ In property actions the claims of a third party on the property cannot usu. be asserted as a defense by a litigant. A litigant may, however, have third-party standing to assert another's constitutional rights (as when an organization asserts the rights of its members) if there is a substantial relationship between the litigant and the third party, if it is impossible for the third party to assert its own rights, and if there is the risk that the third party's rights will be diluted without the litigant's assertion.
Merriam-Webster’s Dictionary of Law. Merriam-Webster. 1996.
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n. Latin The rights of third parties affected by a controversy or claim.
Webster's New World Law Dictionary. Susan Ellis Wild. 2000.
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The right of a third party. A tenant or bailee or another in possession of property, who pleads that the title is in some person other than that person's landlord or bailor, is said to set up a jus tertii.
Dictionary from West's Encyclopedia of American Law. 2005.
- jus tertii
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The right of a third party. A tenant or bailee or another in possession of property, who pleads that the title is in some person other than that person's landlord or bailor, is said to set up a jus tertii.
Short Dictionary of (mostly American) Legal Terms and Abbreviations.
