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... important aspects of public life , central , municipal , and pro- vincial ; and , thus , to exhibit the political genius of the Roman in connexion with all the chief problems of administration which it attempted to solve . This design ...
... important aspects of public life , central , municipal , and pro- vincial ; and , thus , to exhibit the political genius of the Roman in connexion with all the chief problems of administration which it attempted to solve . This design ...
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... importance politically , and the rights of whose members were in all probability those of private rather than of public law . These expectations are verified , but the attempts to point out certain purely political characteristics of ...
... importance politically , and the rights of whose members were in all probability those of private rather than of public law . These expectations are verified , but the attempts to point out certain purely political characteristics of ...
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... importance.10 This inheritance is by the gentiles as a whole , for there is no proximus gentilis , and in historic times it must have been an inheritance by individuals , the property being divided amongst those who could prove their ...
... importance.10 This inheritance is by the gentiles as a whole , for there is no proximus gentilis , and in historic times it must have been an inheritance by individuals , the property being divided amongst those who could prove their ...
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... importance ; had they passed out of the gens , there was no security for their continuance . In cases of transition from a family of one clan to a family of another , it was the duty of the pontifices to inquire how the continuity of ...
... importance ; had they passed out of the gens , there was no security for their continuance . In cases of transition from a family of one clan to a family of another , it was the duty of the pontifices to inquire how the continuity of ...
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... importance than the 1 Modern writers are inclined to reject the appeal made to the sexus fragilitas by the Roman jurists , and to believe that the original motive lay in the desire to keep the property of the family together ( cf ...
... importance than the 1 Modern writers are inclined to reject the appeal made to the sexus fragilitas by the Roman jurists , and to believe that the original motive lay in the desire to keep the property of the family together ( cf ...
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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.