A Systematic and Historical Exposition of Roman Law in the Order of a Code |
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acquired action adopted afterwards agnates agreement alien allowed appointed heir aurei belong bonorum possessio bound buyer called claim codicilli comitia consent constitution contract creditor damage daughter death debt debtor deceased DIVESTITIVE dowry duties edict emancipated Emperor father Frag freedman Gaius give given husband hypothec inheritance injuria intention interdict INVESTITIVE FACTS judex jure jurists jus civile Justinian land legacies lex Aquilia lex Julia liable Maevius magistrates mancipatio mandate manumission manumitted manus marriage master nexum obligation owner ownership Papinian parties paterfamilias patron peculium penalty person plebeians possessio possession possessor potestas Prætor Prætorian promise puberty pupillus recover regard remedy rights in personam rights in rem Roman citizen Roman law rule Seius Sempronius senate Senatus Consultum servitude slave statute Stichus stipulatio stipulation surety testator theft thing tion Titius tutela tutor Ulpian unless usucapio usufruct usufructuary Uti Possidetis void wife XII Tables
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Page 189 - Now I say, That the heir, as long as he is a child, differeth nothing from a servant, though he be lord of all ; but is under tutors and governors until the time appointed of the father.
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Page 364 - Power, however, was not an end in itself; it was a means to an end. While it is difficult to be certain precisely what Lenin had in mind when he talked about "socialism...
Page 231 - Taken with its strict sense it denotes a right — indefinite in point of user, unrestricted in point of disposition and unlimited in point of duration, — over a determinate thing.
Page 460 - B, fails to pay it. B promises to grant time to C accordingly. Here the promise of each party is the consideration for the promise of the other party, and they are lawful considerations.
Page 88 - And we shall not be far wrong, if we determine its date as about the end of the fourth, or the beginning of the fifth century before Christ. 3. In the critical work on the Four Books, called ' Record of Remarks in the village of Yung1,' it is observed, ' The Analects, in my opinion, were made by the disciples, just like this record of remarks.
Page 112 - The vain titles of the victories of Justinian are crumbled into dust ; but the name of the legislator is inscribed on a fair and everlasting monument. Under his reign, and by his care, the civil jurisprudence was digested in the immortal works of the Code, the Pandects, and the...
Page 457 - When one person signifies to another his willingness to do or to abstain from doing anything, with a view to obtaining the assent of that other to such act or abstinence, he is said to make a proposal...
Page 268 - Einstein to his agent was not broad enough to authorize the agent to convey the land. The defendants had the right, under the facts as they stood at the time suit was commenced, to have a nonsuit. They had the right to have the case tried upon the facts as they existed at the time of the commencement of the suit. The plaintiff had no right to interject what might be called a new party, Einstein, and a new title originating after the commencement of the suit. In the case of Wittenbrock v. Bellmer,...
Page 18 - ... live on his own means. Otherwise the creditor that has him in bonds shall give him a pound of bread a day, or, if he choose, more. 5. In default of settlement of the claim, the debtor may be kept in bonds for 60 days. In the course of this period he shall be brought before the praetor in the comitium on three successive market days, and the amount of the debt shall be publicly declared.