Outline of Roman History from Romulus to Justinian: (including Translations of the Twelve Tables, the Institutes of Gaius, and the Institutes of Justinian) |
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Page 123
... interdicts , institutions of the formulary system , lost their true character ... " 1 During the first nineteen years of the reign of Diocletian the Christians continued to enjoy the free exercise of their religion without molestation ...
... interdicts , institutions of the formulary system , lost their true character ... " 1 During the first nineteen years of the reign of Diocletian the Christians continued to enjoy the free exercise of their religion without molestation ...
Page 213
... interdicted fire and water , and she , thus becoming a peregrina , then gives birth to a child , many jurists distinguish the two cases , and are of opinion that if she conceived in lawful wedlock her child is born a Roman citizen ...
... interdicted fire and water , and she , thus becoming a peregrina , then gives birth to a child , many jurists distinguish the two cases , and are of opinion that if she conceived in lawful wedlock her child is born a Roman citizen ...
Page 219
... interdicted by a penal law , in consequence of crime , loses his citizenship , his children cease to be his in potestas as if he were dead , for reason forbids that a person in the condition of a peregrinus should have a Roman citizen ...
... interdicted by a penal law , in consequence of crime , loses his citizenship , his children cease to be his in potestas as if he were dead , for reason forbids that a person in the condition of a peregrinus should have a Roman citizen ...
Page 256
... interdict Quorum bonorum against those who hold them for the purpose of acquir- ing possession ; and this is so even when either of those persons exists , in cases where the defect consists in not having manu- mitted the inheritance ...
... interdict Quorum bonorum against those who hold them for the purpose of acquir- ing possession ; and this is so even when either of those persons exists , in cases where the defect consists in not having manu- mitted the inheritance ...
Page 287
... interdict that commences " Quorum bonorum . " In its proper place we will explain the use of this interdict . Whether they have the bonorum possessio or not , the inheritance is theirs by the civil law . § 35. It must further be ...
... interdict that commences " Quorum bonorum . " In its proper place we will explain the use of this interdict . Whether they have the bonorum possessio or not , the inheritance is theirs by the civil law . § 35. It must further be ...
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Page 408 - In exchanging the complete manufacture either for money, for labour, or for other goods, over and above what may be sufficient to pay the price of the materials, and the wages of the workmen, something must be given for the profits of the undertaker of the work, who hazards his stock in this adventure.
Page 83 - ... an absolute monarchy disguised by the forms of a commonwealth. The masters of the Roman world surrounded their throne with darkness, concealed their irresistible strength, and humbly professed themselves the accountable ministers of the senate, whose supreme decrees they dictated and obeyed.
Page 594 - ... sewed up in a sack, with a dog, a cock, a viper, and an ape, and, being put up in this horrid inclosure, shall be thrown either into the sea, or an adjacent river, according to the situation of the place...
Page 401 - By the law of nature these things are common to mankind: the air, running water, the sea and consequently the shores of the sea".
Page 92 - War he detested, as the disgrace and calamity of human nature ; but when the necessity of a just defence called upon him to take up arms, he readily exposed his person to eight winter campaigns on the frozen banks of the Danube, the severity of which was at last fatal to the weakness of his constitution.
Page 124 - ... to deceive their sovereign! Secluded from mankind by his exalted dignity, the truth is concealed from his knowledge; he can see only with their eyes, he hears nothing but their misrepresentations. He confers the most important offices upon vice and weakness, and disgraces the most virtuous and deserving among his subjects. By such infamous arts," added Diocletian, "the best and wisest princes are sold to the venal corruption of their courtiers.
Page 85 - Rome groaned beneath an unremitting tyranny, which exterminated the ancient families of the republic, and was fatal to almost every virtue and every talent that arose in that unhappy period.
Page 84 - On the death of that emperor his testament was publicly read in the senate. He bequeathed, as a valuable legacy to his successors, the advice of confining the empire within those limits which nature seemed to have placed as its permanent bulwarks and boundaries...
Page 368 - who are ruled by laws and customs, are governed partly by their own particular laws, and partly by those laws which are common to all mankind. The law which a people enacts is called the Civil Law of that people, but that which natural reason appoints for all mankind is called the Law of Nations, because all nations use it.
Page 564 - ... a condemnation in double the value; but in an action, given by the law Aquilia for an injury done, and sometimes in an action of deposit, the double value may be exacted in case of denial ; but if the defendant confesses, the single value only can be recovered.