Jocus

Jocus

Jocus (lat.), Scherz, Schäker, Kurzweil; daher Jocusstab, Stab mit einem Brustbilde, welches die Freude, od. auch oft ein Zerrbild mit Schellenkappe vorstellt.


Pierer's Lexicon. 1857–1865.

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  • JOCUS — inter Gentilium Numina, occurrit apud Stat. l. 1. Sylv. 6.v. 5. Et multo gravidus mero December Et ridens Iocus, et Sales protervi Adsint Formam eius repraesentant Laur. Ramiresii Notae ad Mart. ut ea ante 200. circiter annos a Conr. Colte in… …   Hofmann J. Lexicon universale

  • jocus — /jowkas/ In old English law, a game of hazard …   Black's law dictionary

  • jocus — /jowkas/ In old English law, a game of hazard …   Black's law dictionary

  • jocus — A game of chance …   Ballentine's law dictionary

  • jocus partitus — /jowkas partatas/ In old English practice, a divided game, risk, or hazard. An arrangement which the parties to a suit were anciently sometimes allowed to make by mutual agreement upon a certain hazard, as that one should lose if the case turned… …   Black's law dictionary

  • jocus partitus — /jowkas partatas/ In old English practice, a divided game, risk, or hazard. An arrangement which the parties to a suit were anciently sometimes allowed to make by mutual agreement upon a certain hazard, as that one should lose if the case turned… …   Black's law dictionary

  • jocus partitus — An ancient means of deciding a case by chance …   Ballentine's law dictionary

  • BELLUS Jocus — locus memoratus Petro Mauritio, Abbati Cluniacensi in ep. quadam, in dioecesi Matisconensi, in Aeduis, Eidem l. de Mirac. c. 27. caput olim pagi Belloiocensis, Ararim inter et Ligerim: unde Domini Belloiocenses, qui ex Sabaudiae Comitibus orti… …   Hofmann J. Lexicon universale

  • JEU — QU’IL soit individuel ou collectif, le jeu est une activité qui semble échapper, presque par définition, aux normes de la vie sociale telle qu’on l’entend généralement, puisque jouer c’est précisément se situer en dehors des contraintes qui… …   Encyclopédie Universelle

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