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... rule is , that law is known to everybody at his own peril , facts are not known to everybody at his own peril . ' ' Ignorance of fact may be pleaded , not ignorance of law ; and relief is accorded to error , but not to stupidity . ' The ...
... rule is , that law is known to everybody at his own peril , facts are not known to everybody at his own peril . ' ' Ignorance of fact may be pleaded , not ignorance of law ; and relief is accorded to error , but not to stupidity . ' The ...
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... rules which the Roman praetor thought worthy to govern the intercourse of Roman citizens with the members of all , originally independent but now subject , foreign nations . Accordingly , if for the definition given by Gaius we ...
... rules which the Roman praetor thought worthy to govern the intercourse of Roman citizens with the members of all , originally independent but now subject , foreign nations . Accordingly , if for the definition given by Gaius we ...
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... rule and uniformity of process . The legislative power of the popular assembly and the absence of legislative power in the senate and praetor were marked by a difference of style in the lex and plebiscite , edict , and decree of the ...
... rule and uniformity of process . The legislative power of the popular assembly and the absence of legislative power in the senate and praetor were marked by a difference of style in the lex and plebiscite , edict , and decree of the ...
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... rule that merely adoptive ascendents and descendents are so utterly prohibited from inter- marriage that dissolution of the adoption does not dissolve the prohibition : so that an adoptive daughter or granddaughter cannot be taken to ...
... rule that merely adoptive ascendents and descendents are so utterly prohibited from inter- marriage that dissolution of the adoption does not dissolve the prohibition : so that an adoptive daughter or granddaughter cannot be taken to ...
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... rule that when a female Roman citizen marries an alien with whom she has no capacity of civil marriage the offspring is an alien is a statutory enactment : the rule that when a female alien marries a Roman citizen with whom she has no ...
... rule that when a female Roman citizen marries an alien with whom she has no capacity of civil marriage the offspring is an alien is a statutory enactment : the rule that when a female alien marries a Roman citizen with whom she has no ...
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Agerius agnates alien autem bonorum called capitis causa civil law coemption condemnatio condictio contract creditor debt debtor defendant delict disposition dominion edict eius enim etiam exceptio factum father filius filiusfamilias formula fuerit Gaius guardian heir heredes hereditas hereditatem ideo inheritance Inst institution intentio intention inter interdict itaque iure iuris judex jure juris jurists Justinian legatee lege legis lex Aelia Sentia lex Julia liberi Litis contestatio mancipatio mancipation manu manumission modo neque Nexum Numerius Negidius obligatio obligation party pecunia personal action plaintiff posse possessio possession possessionem possessor potest praetor proprietor quae quam quia quibus quidem quis quod quoque real action Roman law sanction Savigny self-successor servitude sesterces sive slave status stipulatio stipulation successor sunt tamen testamento testator thing tion Titius Twelve Tables Ulpian usucapion Uti possidetis velut vero vindicatio
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Page 405 - 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 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 72 - ... a marito non posse : deductione enim opus esse in mariti non in uxoris domum quasi in domicilium matrimonii, Dig.
Page 86 - In orbe Romano qui sunt, ex constitutione imperatoris Antonini cives Romani effecti sunt, Dig.
Page 221 - That no will shall be valid unless it shall be in writing and executed in manner herein-after mentioned ; (that is to say,) it shall be signed at the foot or end thereof by the testator, or by some other person in his presence and by his direction; and such signature shall be made or acknowledged by the testator in the presence of two or more witnesses present at the same time, and such witnesses shall attest and shall subscribe the will in the presence of the testator, but no form of attestation...
Page 600 - ... quod factum est. Sed et si quid fuerit subsecutum ex eo vel ob id, quod interdicente lege factum est, illud quoque cassum atque inutile esse praecipimus, Cod.
Page 242 - ... rupta sunt. nam si septem testium signis signata sint testamenta, potest scriptus heres secundum tabulas bonorum possessionem petere, si modo defunctus testator et civis Romanus et suae potestatis mortis tempore fuerit : nam si ideo inritum...
Page 334 - Latinus quidem, quoniam nominatim lege lunia prohibitus est; is autem qui dediticiorum numero est, quoniam nee quasi civis Romanus testari potest, cum sit peregrinus, nee quasi peregrinus, quoniam nullius certae civitatis civis est, ut secundum leges civitatis suae testetur.
Page 16 - ... dolum malum esse omnem calliditatem fallaciam machinationem ad circumveniendum fallendum decipiendum alterum adhibitam.
Page 276 - Minus quam perfecta lex est quae vetat aliquid fieri et si factum sit non rescindit sed poenam injungit ei qui contra legem fecit: qualis est lex Furia testamentaria quae plus quam mille assium legatum mortisve causa prohibet capere praeter exceptas personas, et adversus eum qui plus ceperit quadrupli poenam constituit, Ulpian, 1, 2.