Absolute: Free from restriction or condition.
Admiralty Law: The law aboard a ship; the jurisdiction of courts of law over cases concerning ships or the sea and other navigable waters.
Affirm/Affirmed: To declare something to be true positively and firmly, but not under oath.
Agree: To come into or be in accord.
Assembly: A group of people organized and united for some common purpose. A decree guaranteeing freedom of assembly. (See first level of government above in FAQs)
Autograph: A man or woman’s own absolute expression in writing.
Biblical law: The law according to The Bible.
Bill of Rights: The Bill of Rights is the first ten amendments to the United States Constitution, ratified in 1791, which guarantees essential rights and freedoms to individuals, such as freedom of speech, religion, and the right to bear arms as well as the right to a fair trial. It was created to address concerns about the lack of specific protections for individual liberties in the original Constitution.
Citizen: A person owing loyalty to and entitled by birth or naturalization to the protection of a state or nation. A resident of a city or town, especially one entitled to vote and enjoy other privileges therein.
Citizenship: The status of a citizen with its attendant duties, rights, and privileges. The state of being a citizen; the status of a citizen. The status of being a citizen.
Color of law: A mere semblance of legal right; something done with the apparent authority of law but actually in contravention of law.
Common Defense: Establishing the means for defending people as a whole body.
Common law: The general misconception is that any statute passed by legislators bearing the appearance of law Constitutes the law of the land. The United States Constitution is the supreme Law of the land, and any statute, to be valid, must be in agreement. It is impossible for a law which violates the constitution to be valid. This is succinctly stated as follows: “All laws which are repugnant to the constitution are null and void” Marbury vs. Madison 5 US (2 Cranch) 137, 174, 176, (1803).
Consent: Agreement, approval or permission conveyed for the enactment or execution of some act or purpose.
Constitution: The organic and fundamental law of a nation or state establishing the character and conception of its form of government, with detail to its principles, functions, form and limitations. A character of government deriving its sole exercise of authority from the consent of the governed. A writ of delegated powers from the people and how they are to be exercised for common governance; also designed and structured with intent to limit the power or authority of those to whom power is delegated.
Covenant: An agreement between two or more parties through which the agreeing parties pledge to each other for a common purpose.
Declaration: A formal statement, proclamation, or announcement. The Declaration of Independence was written for multiple audiences: the King of England, the colonists, along with the rest of the world. The goal of this pivotal document was to announce the creation of a new country, consisting of the historical 13 colonies. The opening statement of this document declares that the colonists had a right to be free on the land. In other words, “to declare the causes which impel them to the separation.” Congress had to prove the legitimacy of its cause. It had just defied the most powerful nation on Earth and needed to motivate foreign allies to join the fight.
De facto: Existing in actuality, especially when contrary to or not established by law; in fact or in practice; in actual use or existence, regardless of official or legal status. (Often opposed to de jure.): existing in fact whether with lawful authority or not.
De jure: According to law; by right; in accordance with the law, legally. By right; according to law. Lawful.
Delegate: To convey or transmit to another person or group of people authority to engage such acts, functions or deeds as are specified by the delegating parties.
Democracy: A form of government based on the majority vote; an election of officers who exercise supreme power over the people.
Equal: Having the same quality or measurement as another.
Freedom: The condition of being free of restraints, especially the ability to act without control or interference by another or by circumstance. The condition of not being controlled by another nation or political power; political independence.
Freeholder: One with absolute interest such as title in allodium to land that endures to the heirs and succeeds to their heirs upon death, etc.
Freeman: Without oath to Political Will or Body Politic; a person not in slavery or serfdom. One who possesses the rights or privileges of a citizen; who enjoys liberty, or who is not subject to the will of another; one not a slave or a vassal.
Grand Jury: A group of individuals numbering 25, selected according to law and holds the Jural authority of the People to decide cases of potential criminal nature. A grand jury is empowered by law to conduct legal proceedings; investigate potential criminal conduct and determine whether criminal charges should be brought; may subpoena physical evidence or a person to testify. A grand jury is separate from the courts, which do not preside over its functioning. Originating in England during the middle ages, modern examples include grand jury in the United States, and to a lesser extent, Liberty.
House of Representatives: The United States House of Representatives is a chamber of the bicameral United States Congress; it is the lower house, with the U.S. Senate being the upper house. Together, the House and Senate have the authority under Article One of the U.S. Constitution to pass or defeat federal legislation, known as bills. Those that are passed by the Senate are sent to the president for signature or veto. The House’s exclusive powers include initiating all revenue bills, impeaching federal officers, and electing the president if no candidate receives a majority of votes in the Electoral College.
Indigenous: Natural occurrence of life, in alignment with natural law.
Indigenous Power: Strength, ability, and capacity originating and/or occurring from the natural order of things.
Inhabit: To be present or dwell in.
Inhabitant: One that inhabits a place and thereby establishes his/her or their home.
Inherent: Existing naturally within and for the part of which it acts; that which cannot be negated, abrogated, subjugated or subrogated by external acts of foreign powers. Rights of Law.
Interim Seat Holder: 2 U.S.C. Section 8, Vacancies: “The time for holding elections in any State, district, or territory for a Representative or Delegate to fill a vacancy, whether such vacancy is caused by a failure to elect at the time prescribed by law, or by the death, resignation, or incapacity of a person elected, may be prescribed by the laws of the several States and territories respectively.”
Jura: Of or relating to rights of Law.
Jural: Of or relating to rights of Law and obligations. Pertaining to a natural or positive right. Of or pertaining to jurisprudence. Of or pertaining to law. Of or pertaining to moral rights and obligations. Of or relating to legal rights and obligations.
Jural Assembly: The right of law retained by the people. A body politic by right of Law and for that purpose.
Jural Authority: One who takes an oath to the law Body Politic he will be serving.
Jural Society: Of or relating to law; of or relating to rights and obligations; pertaining to natural or positive right. The totality of people regarded as forming a community of interdependent individuals “working for the benefit of society.”
A group of people broadly distinguished from other groups by mutual interests, participation in characteristic relationships, shared institutions, and a common culture, such as “rural society; literary society.”
An organization or association of persons engaged in a common profession, activity, or interest, such as “a folklore society; a society of bird watchers.”
THEREFORE, a Jural Society is a lawful community of interdependent people working for the benefit of society.
Jurant: A jury body of twelve (12) people.
Jurata: Of Law; also implies attachment by oath.
Juris: A Latin term meaning “of right” or “of law,” often used in legal contexts to refer to rights, laws, or legal authority. Jurisdiction: The authority, capacity, power and/or right to act. Positional standing within a court’s territory by right of its law that it serves.
Jurisdiction: The authority of a court to hear and decide a case.
Jurist: A man or woman serving on a jury.
Juror: An individual member of a group of persons selected according to law to make up a jury.
Jury/Jury of Peers: A jural body composed of men and women of equal stature and status as to the parties of an action in Law. Hence, only a sovereign man or woman on the Land can sit in jury to decide a matter to be determined by the Law of the Land.
Lawful: Being within the law; allowed by law. Established, sanctioned, or recognized by the law. Obeying the law; law-abiding.
Legal: Pertaining to, connected with, or prescribed by law; lawful; relating to the law or to law courts; regulated or determined by law. This definition emphasizes the connection between legal concepts and the established rules and procedures of law.
Liberty: The power or scope to act as one pleases within the confines of the law. Individuals should enjoy the liberty to pursue their own interests and preferences; philosophy of a person’s freedom from control by fate or necessity. Nautical shore leave granted to a sailor.
Local people assembly: People in common by right, convening in solemn assembly to make common law decisions.
Mutual/Mutually: Having the same relationship, each to the other.
Native: An inhabitant or occupant of a place, region or nation by virtue of having been born there, whose national origin derives from having been born within a particular place.
Natural law: A set of universal truths, principles and rules that govern moral human conduct and are believed to be derived from nature rather than from societal rules (positive law). It is a body of law or specific principles held and derived from nature and binding upon human society in the absence of or in addition to positive law. This concept is pre-existing and discovered through human reason and rational analysis.
Oath: A promise to perform secured by an agreement to be punished as ransom upon failure to perform; establishing one’s bond to an act to be done by word spoken or inscribed.
One People: A group of individuals standing together one and equal, connected to each other by common bond.
One People Assembly: People standing equal by mutual pledge in Assembly.
People: Plural of person. refer to a group or people multitude, while persons is the plural of person, often used in formal or legal contexts.
Person: A man or woman considered according to the rank he/she holds in society, with all the rights to which place he holds entitles him, and the duties which it imposes. A human being is considered as capable of having rights and of being charged with duties; while a “thing” is the object over which rights may be exercised.
Pledge: A solemn binding promise to do, give or refrain from doing something.
Political Will: The direction or will of the state in government.
Power: The strength and ability to perform and act or not act.
President: The president of the United States (POTUS) is the head of state and head of government of the United States within the executive branch of the government. The president directs the executive branch of the federal government and is the commander-in-chief of the United States Armed Forces. The executive branch is defined in Article Two of the Constitution.
Pro Se: Self-representation.
Republic: A political order in which the supreme power lies in a body of citizens who are entitled to vote for officers and representatives responsible to them; in a firm matter of a state in common whose head of state is not a monarch and in modern times is usually a president.
Republic Government: The majority votes the election of officers, who by election exercise delegated surrogate power for the people in a firm matter of state in common.
Right: Truth, conforming to is correct.
Rights: Truths, that which is correct and naturally belonging to and inherent in the People.
Secretary of State: The Secretary of State is the chief executive officer of the Department of State and a member of the Cabinet within the executive branch who answers directly to and advises the president of the United States.
Senate: The United States Senate is a chamber of the bicameral United States Congress; it is the upper house, with the U.S. House of Representatives being the lower house. Together, the Senate and House have the authority under Article One of the U.S. Constitution to pass or defeat federal legislation.
The Senate also has exclusive power to confirm U.S. presidential appointments; to approve or reject treaties; and to convict or exonerate impeachment cases brought by the House. The Senate and the House provide a check and balance on the powers of the executive and judicial branches of government. The composition and powers of the Senate were established in Article One of the U.S. Constitution, which has been in continuous effect since March 4, 1789. Each of the 50 states is represented by two senators who serve staggered six-year terms. In total, the Senate consists of 100 members.
Settlement: Inhabitants firmly established in place who hold Claim of Right on the Land.
Settlement/Settling: The act or process of permanently determining an issue, causing it to be determined and free from uncertainty.
Signature: A living man or woman’s name by that individual; autograph.
Sovereign: Possessing supreme or ultimate power. In modern society, the people’s will is in theory, sovereign. A nation or its affair acting or done independently and without outside interference. A body or individual vested with supreme permanent authority.
Sovereign living being on the land: A free man or woman living in accordance with common law. Simply put, sovereignty is the living relationship between the people, and the land upon which they live.
Sovereign Rights: Sovereign Rights are inherent supreme rights belonging to and retained by the power from where it naturally originates; occurs or by indigenous power; lives indigenously. Inherent rights belonging to and originating from supreme authority.
Submit: To yield or surrender to the will or authority of another.
Substantive Law: That part of law which creates, defines and regulates rights.
Sui Juris: By one’s own inherent right and authority; the Self as Law.
Supreme: Ultimate final power and authority.
Supreme Justice: The Supreme Court of the United States is the highest-ranking judicial body in the United States. Its membership was set by the Judiciary Act of 1869. It consists of the chief justice of the United States and eight associate justices, any six of whom constitute a quorum. Article II, Section 2, Clause 2 of the Constitution grants plenary power to the president. These justices are nominated by the President of the United States and confirmed by the Senate. They serve lifetime appointments, as stipulated by Article III of the U.S. Constitution.
Surrogate: Delegated substitute power, in place of.
Unalienable: Cannot be separated, given away or taken away; cannot be liened.
Vested: Bestowed upon without restrictions, contingency and is absolute.
Witness: One who sees, knows and can vouch for something.
Witness Protection: Protected by the assurance of authenticity by a witness.
Writ: A precept (an order or direction emanating from authority) in writing.