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... already been attained . The square city ( Roma quadrata ) was the enclosure of the Palatine , the " grazing - land " of the early Roman shepherd ; the bounds of the oldest pomerium were known in later times to have been the limits of ...
... already been attained . The square city ( Roma quadrata ) was the enclosure of the Palatine , the " grazing - land " of the early Roman shepherd ; the bounds of the oldest pomerium were known in later times to have been the limits of ...
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... already possessed the jus commercii with that state , and by the exercise of the right of voluntary exile from his native land ( jus exulandi ) claimed the Roman civitas . The existence of such relations between Rome and cities of the ...
... already possessed the jus commercii with that state , and by the exercise of the right of voluntary exile from his native land ( jus exulandi ) claimed the Roman civitas . The existence of such relations between Rome and cities of the ...
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... already possessed by the individual . Now the loss of public rights could only follow on a loss of citizenship ; but this is not the diminution but the annihilation of caput , and could not therefore in the earliest stage of Roman law ...
... already possessed by the individual . Now the loss of public rights could only follow on a loss of citizenship ; but this is not the diminution but the annihilation of caput , and could not therefore in the earliest stage of Roman law ...
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... already formed human resolution . It tells men only whether they are to carry out a course of action already purposed ; it may confirm them in it or warn them from it ; and it is the duty of men to seek a sign either of encouragement or ...
... already formed human resolution . It tells men only whether they are to carry out a course of action already purposed ; it may confirm them in it or warn them from it ; and it is the duty of men to seek a sign either of encouragement or ...
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... already seen 2 that the tribus are probably an ethnic survival artificially employed ; in the case of the curiae , it must remain far less certain whether they were of spontaneous growth or purely artificial creations , or ( what is ...
... already seen 2 that the tribus are probably an ethnic survival artificially employed ; in the case of the curiae , it must remain far less certain whether they were of spontaneous growth or purely artificial creations , or ( what is ...
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Page 341 - Quod principi placuit legis habet vigorem: utpote cum lege regia, quae de imperio eius lata est, populus ei et in eum omne suum imperium et potestatem conferat...
Page 82 - Deinde, quo plus virium in senatu frequentia etiam ordinis faceret, caedibus regis deminutum patrum numerum primoribus equestris gradus lectis ad trecentorum summam explevit; traditumque inde fertur, ut in senatum vocarentur, qui patres quique conscripti essent: conscriptos videlicet appellabant lectos.
Page 87 - ... harum et interpretandi scientia et actiones apud collegium pontificum erant, ex quibus constituebatur, quis quoquo anno praeesset privatis.
Page 27 - calata ' appellari diximus, et sacrorum detestatio et testamenta fieri solebant. Tria enim genera testamentorum fuisse accepimus : unum, quod calatis comitiis in populi contione fieret, alterum in procinctu, cum viri ad proelium faciendum in aciem vocabantur, tertium per familiae emancipationem, cui aes et libra adhiberetur. In eodem Laelii Felicis libro haec scripta sunt : Is qui non ut universum populum, sed partem aliquam adesse iubet, non ' comitia,' sed ' concilium
Page 126 - Uude olim patricii dicebant plebiscitis se non teneri, quia sine auctoritate eorum facta essent. sed postea lex Hortensia lata est, qua cautum est ut plebiscita universum populum tenerent.
Page 301 - Item municipes erant, qui ex aliis civitatibus Romam venissent, quibus non licebat magistratum capere, sed tantum muneris partem, ut fuerunt Cumani, Acerrani, Atellani, qui et cives Romani erant, et in legione merebant, sed dignitates non capiebant (117 L).
Page 242 - 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.
Page 26 - In suis heredibus evidentius apparet continuationem dominii eo rem perducere, ut nulla videatur hereditas fuisse, quasi olim hi domini essent qui etiam vivo patre quodammodo domini existimantur : unde etiam filiusfamilias appellatur sicut paterfamilias, sola nota hac adjecta per quam distinguitur genitor ab eo qui genitus sit.
Page 64 - Neminem voluerunt majores nostri, non modo de existimatione cujusquam, sed ne pecuniaria quidem de re minima, esse judicem, nisi qui inter adversarios convenisset.
Page 61 - Namque antea, profectis domo regibus, ac mox magistratibus , ne urbs sine imperio foret, in tempus deligebatur qui jus redderet ac subitis mederetur : feruntque ab Romulo Dentrem Romulium , post ab Tullo Hostilio Numam Marcium , et ab Tarquinio Superbo Spurium Lucretium, impositos.