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... person or a sovereign body of persons to a member or members of the independent political society wherein that person or body is sovereign or supreme : it is set by a monarch or sovereign number to a person or persons in a state of ...
... person or a sovereign body of persons to a member or members of the independent political society wherein that person or body is sovereign or supreme : it is set by a monarch or sovereign number to a person or persons in a state of ...
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... person benefited by a doing or forbearance commanded by the lawgiver to enforce that performance or forbearance from the person to whom it is onerous , that is , to whom it is commanded , by an appeal to the sovereign power to whom such ...
... person benefited by a doing or forbearance commanded by the lawgiver to enforce that performance or forbearance from the person to whom it is onerous , that is , to whom it is commanded , by an appeal to the sovereign power to whom such ...
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... person in whom it resides , and a person on whom a correlative obligation is incumbent . The same , mutatis mutandis , may be said of every relative Obligation . We say of every relative obligation , for not all obligations are relative ...
... person in whom it resides , and a person on whom a correlative obligation is incumbent . The same , mutatis mutandis , may be said of every relative Obligation . We say of every relative obligation , for not all obligations are relative ...
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... person with whom he contracted , the right of every respectable member of society to have his honour unstained , his character unimpeached . The corresponding Sanctioning rights , or rights of the injured party to redress , are the ...
... person with whom he contracted , the right of every respectable member of society to have his honour unstained , his character unimpeached . The corresponding Sanctioning rights , or rights of the injured party to redress , are the ...
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... personam . This division of rights depends on a division of the corresponding obligations . Every right residing in one person implies the existence of another person or persons on whom a corresponding 6 PRELIMINARY DEFINITIONS .
... personam . This division of rights depends on a division of the corresponding obligations . Every right residing in one person implies the existence of another person or persons on whom a corresponding 6 PRELIMINARY DEFINITIONS .
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acquired Aelia Sentia agnates alien aput autem bequest bona bonorum capitis causa civil law civis coemption contract creditor debt debtor defendant dominion eius enim esset etiam ex delicto factum father filius filiusfamilias formula fuerit Gaius guardian haec heir heredes hereditatem ideo inheritance Inst intentio inter itaque iure iuris judex jurists jus in rem Justinian Latin Latinus legatee legatum lege legis lex Aelia Sentia lex Julia liberi mancipation manu manumission manumitted modo neque Nexum Numerius Negidius obligatio obligation patris patron pecunia person plaintiff posse possession potest prae praetor proprietor quae quam quia quibus quidem quiritary Quiritium quis quod quoque real action Roman law Rome sanction self-successor senatusconsult sesterces sive slave status stipulatio stipulation successor sui iuris sunt tamen testamento testator thing tion Titius tutela Twelve Tables Ulpian usucapion velut vero
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Page 254 - Gentiles sunt, qui inter se eodem nomine sunt. Non est satis. Qui ab ingenuis oriundi sunt. Ne id quidem satis est. Quorum majorum nemo servitutem servivit. Abest etiam nunc. Qui capite non sunt deminuti.
Page 53 - 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.
Page 323 - No action shall be brought whereby to charge the defendant upon any special promise to answer for the debt, default, or miscarriage of another person, unless the agreement upon which such action shall be brought, or some memorandum or note thereof, shall be in writing, and signed by the party to be charged therewith, or some other person thereunto by him lawfully authorized.
Page 174 - Igitur quod liberi nostri quos in potestate habemus, item quod servi nostn mancipio accipiunt, vel ex traditione nanciscuntur, sive quid stipulentur, vel ex aliqualibet causa adquirunt, id nobis adquiritur : ipse enim qui in potestate nostra est nihil suum habere potest...
Page 2 - Every positive law, or every law simply and strictly so called, is set by a sovereign person, or a sovereign body of persons, to a member or members of the independent political society wherein that person or body is sovereign or supreme. Or (changing the expression) it is set by a monarch, or sovereign number, to a person or persons in a state of subjection to its author.
Page 69 - In orbe Romano qui sunt, ex constitutione imperatoris Antonini cives Romani effecti sunt, Dig.
Page 360 - ... autem teneri reus litis contestatione. sed si condemnatus sit, sublata litis contestatione incipit ex causa iudicati teneri. et hoc ^est^> quod apud veteres scriptum est, ante litem contestatam dare ^debitorem oportere, post litem contestatam condemnari oportere, post condemnationem iudicatum faceré oportere.
Page 475 - ... enim te oportet, cum ex stipulatu teneris; sed quia iniquum est te eo nomine condemnari, placet per exceptionem doli mali te defendi debere.
Page 512 - Quod precario ab illo habes, aut dolo malo fecisti ut desineres habere, qua de re agitur, id illi restituas, Dig1.
Page 383 - And it is a settled distinction, that where an act is done which is in itself an immediate injury to another's person or property, there the remedy is usually by an action of trespass vi et armis; but where there is no act done, but only a culpable omission, or where the act is not immediately injurious, but only by consequence and collaterally; there no action of trespass vi et armis will lie, but an action on the special case for the damages consequent on such omission or act.