The word Ius had a variety of meanings in Roman Law. It could refer, for example, to "a place where justice is dispensed" (e.g. in ius vocatio), or "strict law" as distinct from equity, or "a right deriving from a rule" (e.g. ius conubii, the right to contract a marriage under the Civil Law), or "general man-made law as opposed to fas, i.e. lae declared by divine authority". It came to have two particularly important meanings: The rules of law (its objective sense) and the rights conferred by those rules on a person in a particular situation (its subjective sense).
- Ius and Aequitas
In the classical period aequitas (= fairness, justice) was the term often used in reference to the Praetorian interpretation and application of the law.
