Jus dicere

JUS DICERE. To declare the law. This word is used to explain the power which the court has to expound the law; and not to make it, jus dare.

A Law Dictionary, Adapted to the Constitution and Laws of the United States. By John Bouvier. Published 1856.
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The good in politics is quite logically replaced by some form of the correct, just as whenever droit naturel comes to be opposed loi naturelle, the supreme power of the state necessarily transposes itself from jus dicere to jus dare.
Jacques Maritain: The Philosopher in Society

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