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... state is mythically said to have sprung , it cannot be denied that the populus Romanus , when we first know anything ... state ; it was the foundation on which were based all the privileges which the Roman citizen enjoyed within the ...
... state is mythically said to have sprung , it cannot be denied that the populus Romanus , when we first know anything ... state ; it was the foundation on which were based all the privileges which the Roman citizen enjoyed within the ...
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... rights , though the public duty of military ser- vice was imposed upon them , and a considerable force of infantry was thus added to the resources of the state . This process , however , of attaching all peregrini residing 4 INTRODUCTION.
... rights , though the public duty of military ser- vice was imposed upon them , and a considerable force of infantry was thus added to the resources of the state . This process , however , of attaching all peregrini residing 4 INTRODUCTION.
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... state , and this could not have been done unless the reform of Servius had embraced every citizen , every inch of Roman soil . In point of fact , the new arrangement was based on the prin- ciple of local contiguity , and therefore ...
... state , and this could not have been done unless the reform of Servius had embraced every citizen , every inch of Roman soil . In point of fact , the new arrangement was based on the prin- ciple of local contiguity , and therefore ...
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... state against its external foes . On the expulsion of the kings we find the centurial organization adapted to a new political assembly , the comitia centuriata , which was destined to throw the old assembly of the patricians at once ...
... state against its external foes . On the expulsion of the kings we find the centurial organization adapted to a new political assembly , the comitia centuriata , which was destined to throw the old assembly of the patricians at once ...
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... state . The patricians saved themselves from a catastrophe which would have thrown the history of Rome centuries backward , and , in all probability , totally altered its character , by conceding certain reforms , by surrendering ...
... state . The patricians saved themselves from a catastrophe which would have thrown the history of Rome centuries backward , and , in all probability , totally altered its character , by conceding certain reforms , by surrendering ...
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Page 636 - Ancient Law.' It may be said to consist of three dramatic acts or stages, the first of which presents to us an oral pleading or altercation. The subject of dispute, eg a slave — or if it be too large, a portion of it, is brought into court : whereupon the plaintiff, holding in one hand the festuca, or symbol of absolute dominion, grasped it with the other, and touching it with the festuca said ' hunc ego hominem (eg) ex iure Quiritium meum esse aio secundum suam causam sicut dixi : ecce tibi vindictam...
Page 100 - Ius autem civile vel gentium ita dividitur : omnes populi, qui legibus et moribus reguntur, partim suo proprio, partim communi omnium hominum iure utuntur : nam quod quisque populus ipse sibi ius constituit, id ipsius proprium civitatis est vocaturque ius civile, quasi ius proprium ipsius civitatis : quod vero naturalis ratio inter omnes homines constituit, id apud omnes populos pereaque custoditur vocaturque ius gentium, quasi quo iure omnes gentes utuntur.
Page 474 - Obligationum substantia non in eo consistit ut aliquod corpus nostrum aut servitutem nostram faciat, sed ut alium nobis obstringat ad dandum aliquid vel faciendum vel praestandum, Dig.
Page 103 - ... quod principi placuit, legis habet vigorem, cum lege regia, quae de imperio ejus lata est, populus ri et in eum omne suum imperium et potestatem concessit. Quodcumque igitur Imperator per epistulam constituit vel cognoscens decrevit vel edicto praecepit, legem esse constat : haec sunt, quae constitutiones appellantur.
Page 100 - Nam quod quisque populus ipse sibi ius constituit, id ipsius proprium est vocaturque ius civile, quasi ius proprium civitatis; quod vero naturalis ratio inter omnes homines constituit, id apud omnes populos peraeque custoditur vocaturque ius gentium, quasi quo iure omnes gentes utuntur. Populus itaque Romanus partim suo proprio, partim communi omnium hominum iure utitur.
Page 2 - ... harum et interpretandi scientia et actiones apud collegium pontificum erant, ex quibus constituebatur, quis quoquo anno praeesset privatis.
Page 247 - ... obsignatas non minus multis signis quam e lege oportet'). How far, and in what sense, such dispositions were upheld is deserving of careful notice, for nothing affords a more instructive or characteristic illustration of the mode in which the. praetorian law modified and supplemented the old ius civile.
Page 267 - ... proinde fit heres is cui in iure cesserit, ac si ipse per legem ad hereditatem uocatus esset.
Page 541 - Omnium actionum, quibus inter aliquos apud iudices arbi- 1 trosve de quaque re quaeritur, summa divisio in duo genera deducitur: aut enim in rem sunt aut in personam. namque agit unusquisque aut cum eo, qui ei obligatus est vel ex contractu vel ex maleficio, quo casu proditae actiones in...
Page 209 - Thesauros, quos quis in suo loco invenerit, divus Hadrianus 39 naturalem aequitatem secutus ei concessit qui invenerit. idemque statuit, si quis in sacro aut in religioso loco fortuito casu invenerit. at si quis in alieno loco non data ad hoc opera, sed fortuitu invenerit, dimidium domino soli concessit. et convenienter, si quis in Caesaris loco invenerit, dimidium inventoris, dimidium Caesaris esse statuit.