‖ summum jus
(ˈsʌməm dʒʌs)
[L., summum (see summum bonum), jūs right, law.]
The utmost rigour of the law, extreme severity.
| 1588 J. Udall Diotrephes (Arb.) 29 Summum ius, must be your best help in this case. 1609 J. Davies Humour's Heaven i. ccxii, To rule them with the Rod of Summumius. 1668 Wilkins Real Char. ii. viii. §3. 207 Summum Jus, Rigidness, sourness, unreasonableness, iniquity. 1692 T. Watson Body Divin. 50 God doth not go according to the summum jus, or rigour of the Law. 1774 Burke Corr. (1844) I. 485 The strict letter and summum jus of decorum and propriety. |