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... tribunician power was given to him for life . From the positive point of view this enabled him to interpose a veto and to convoke the plebeian assembly , and made his person inviolable . On the negative side he hoped that his assumption ...
... tribunician power was given to him for life . From the positive point of view this enabled him to interpose a veto and to convoke the plebeian assembly , and made his person inviolable . On the negative side he hoped that his assumption ...
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... tribunician power for life , whereas under the old constitution the dictator and tribune had held office for six months and a year respectively . Furthermore , the judicial functions which Caesar exercised in criminal cases , like that ...
... tribunician power for life , whereas under the old constitution the dictator and tribune had held office for six months and a year respectively . Furthermore , the judicial functions which Caesar exercised in criminal cases , like that ...
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... power was limited by the right of appeal and by the tribunician veto . Beyond that point the magistrate , in whose favor the lex curiata de imperio had been passed , acquired the unlimited power of the imperium . The civil magistrate ...
... power was limited by the right of appeal and by the tribunician veto . Beyond that point the magistrate , in whose favor the lex curiata de imperio had been passed , acquired the unlimited power of the imperium . The civil magistrate ...
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... powers given to the consul , or assumed by him on his own responsibility in an emergency , are on the border line ... tribunician veto power . A iustitium could probably be declared by the consul on his own respon- sibility , but this ...
... powers given to the consul , or assumed by him on his own responsibility in an emergency , are on the border line ... tribunician veto power . A iustitium could probably be declared by the consul on his own respon- sibility , but this ...
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... tribunician veto , and the possibility of being held accountable for his ... power to appoint was vested in the consuls . times the two consuls acted ... Powers and Duties . The consuls and other magistrates continued in office after the ...
... tribunician veto , and the possibility of being held accountable for his ... power to appoint was vested in the consuls . times the two consuls acted ... Powers and Duties . The consuls and other magistrates continued in office after the ...
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Page 415 - Fremant omnes licet, dicam quod sentio : bibliothecas mehercule omnium philosophorum unus mihi videtur XII Tabularum libellus, si quis legum fontes et capita viderit, et auctoritatis pondere et utilitatis ubertate superare.
Page 409 - Non pauci sunt, qui opinantur, ' pedarios senatores ' appellatos, qui sententiam in senatu non verbis dicerent, sed in alienam sententiam pedibus irent. Quid igitur?
Page 396 - Aeris confessi rebusque iure iudicatis triginta dies iusti sunto. Post deinde manus iniectio esto, in ius ducito. Ni iudicatum facit aut quis endo eo in iure vindicit, secum ducito, vincito aut nervo aut compedibus.
Page 397 - ... utique quos magistratum potestatem imperium curationemve cuius rei petentes senatui populoque Romano commendaverit, quibusque suffragationem suam dederit promiserit, eorum comitis quibusque extra ordinem ratio habeatur ; utique ei fines pomerii proferre promovere, cum ex re publica >5 censebit esse, liceat ita uti licuit Ti.
Page 397 - Crispinus consul . . .* populum iure rogavit populusque iure scivit in foro pro rostris aedis Divi lulii pr. K.3 lulias. Tribus Sergia principium fuit.
Page 416 - Percipietis etiam illam ex cognitione iuris laetitiam et voluptatem, quod, quantum praestiterint nostri maiores prudentia ceteris gentibus, tum facillime intellegetis, si cum illorum Lycurgo et Dracone et Solone nostras leges conferre volueritis. Incredibile est enim, quam sit omne ius civile praeter hoc nostrum inconditum ac paene ridiculum ; de quo multa soleo in sermonibus cotidianis dicere, cum hominum nostrorum prudentiam ceteris omnibus et maxime Graecis antepono.
Page 410 - Ijwcoxucov inscripta est equites quosdam dicit «pedarios» appellatos' videturque eos significare qui nondum a censoribus in senatum lecti senatores quidem non erant sed, quia honoribus populi usi erant, in senatum veniebant et sententiae ius habebant.
Page 413 - In libro Laelii Felicis ad Q. Mucium primo scriptum est, Labeonem scribere, ' calata ' comitia esse, quae pro conlegio pontificum habentur aut regis aut flaminum inaugurandorum causa.
Page 400 - Renuntiatum est nobis esse homines qui novum genus disciplinae instituerunt, ad quos iuventus in ludum conveniat; eos sibi nomen inposuisse Latinos rhetoras; ibi homines adulescentulos dies totos desidere. Maiores nostri quae liberos suos discere et quos in ludos itare vellent instituerunt. Haec nova, quae praeter consuetudinem ac morem maiorum fiunt, neque placent neque recta videntur.
Page 417 - ergo sunt cives Romani ex municipiis, legibus suis et suo iure utentes, muneris tantum cum populo Romano honorari participes, a quo munere capessendo appellati videntur, nullis aliis necessitatibus neque ulla populi Romani lege adstricti, nisi in quam populus eorum fundus factus est.