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... action can be taken on a formless pact . Is then , a ' pactum fiduciae ' actionable or not ? The early jurists argued this way . Inasmuch as the pactum conventum as such is not actionable , that which is promised in the pactum cannot ...
... action can be taken on a formless pact . Is then , a ' pactum fiduciae ' actionable or not ? The early jurists argued this way . Inasmuch as the pactum conventum as such is not actionable , that which is promised in the pactum cannot ...
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... action could require the defendant ( i.e. the trans- feree in the mancipatio ) to do . He could not call upon him to do what he had promised in the pact , because the pact had not been nuncupated . ' But he could call upon him to do ...
... action could require the defendant ( i.e. the trans- feree in the mancipatio ) to do . He could not call upon him to do what he had promised in the pact , because the pact had not been nuncupated . ' But he could call upon him to do ...
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... action , is ex- plained by the fact that , at the time of the procedure by legis actiones , the praetor had no power in regard to the drawing up of the formulae for actions . The legis actiones , which were elabor- ated and developed by ...
... action , is ex- plained by the fact that , at the time of the procedure by legis actiones , the praetor had no power in regard to the drawing up of the formulae for actions . The legis actiones , which were elabor- ated and developed by ...
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... action . The old action at law ( legis actio ) was confined within certain inflexible formulae which had been developed by the practice of the courts in conformity with the words of the statute . All the magistrate could here do was to ...
... action . The old action at law ( legis actio ) was confined within certain inflexible formulae which had been developed by the practice of the courts in conformity with the words of the statute . All the magistrate could here do was to ...
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... action , but also to allow it , subject , however , to such conditions as to make it in certain cases tantamount to ... actions , admission of pleas , and so on , couched , moreover , in a style , which was not exactly Ciceronian , nor ...
... action , but also to allow it , subject , however , to such conditions as to make it in certain cases tantamount to ... actions , admission of pleas , and so on , couched , moreover , in a style , which was not exactly Ciceronian , nor ...
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acquired action agnatic autem bonae fidei bonorum possessio causa civil law claim condemnatio condictio contract Corpus juris Corpus juris civilis correal counter-claim creditor debt debtor defendant edict effect ejus enim entitled etiam exceptio doli fact factum fideicommissum fiduciae filiusfamilias formal formula heir heredes hereditatis husband inheritance intentio inter ipso jure judex judicium juris civilis juristic act juristic person jus civile jus gentium Justinian Justinian's law legatum lege legis actio liability litis contestatio mancipatio mandatum manus marriage means nexum obligation owner ownership Pandects party patria potestas peculium person plaintiff possession potest praetor praetorian law principle private law purpose quae quam quidem quod Roman law rule servitude sive slave so-called stipulatio stricti juris sunt testamentary testator thing traditio tutela Twelve Tables ULPIAN usucapio usus veluti verbis vindicatio wife words
Popular passages
Page 58 - Jus praetorium est quod praetores introduxerunt adjuvandi vel supplendi vel corrigendi juris civilis gratia propter utilitatem publicam.
Page 48 - ... quod vero naturalis ratio inter omnes homines constituit, id apud omnes populos peraeque custoditur, vocaturque ius gentium, quasi quo iure omnes gentes utuntur.
Page 104 - Again: si quid universitati debetur, singulis non debetur, nee quod debet universitas, singuli debent.
Page 357 - ... gentiles sunt inter se, qui eodem nomine sunt.' non est satis, 'qui ab ingenuis oriundi sunt.' ne id quidem satis est. 'quorum maiorum nemo servitutem servivit.' abest etiam nunc. 'qui capite non sunt deminuti.
Page 356 - Legal' must be here understood as equivalent to ' by virtue of a law '. 1. Sunt autem adgnati per virilis sexus cognationem conjunct!, quasi a patre cognati, veluti frater eodem patre natus, fratris filius neposve ex eo, item patruus et patrui filius neposve ex eo. At qui per feminini sexus personas cognatione junguntur, non sunt adgnati, sed alias natural!
Page 309 - Cum autem emptio et venditio contracta sit (quod effici diximus, simulatque de pretio convenerit, cum sine scriptura res agitur), periculum rei venditae statim ad emptorem pertinet, tametsi adhuc ea res emptori tradita non sit.
Page 19 - Contra legem facit, qui id facit quod lex prohibet, in fraudem vero, qui salvis verbis legis sententiam eius circumvenit.
Page 16 - Publicum ius est quod ad statum rei Romanae spectat, privatum quod ad singulorum utilitatem: sunt enim quaedam publice utilia, quaedam privatim.
Page xxx - That an English writer of the time of Henry III. should have been able to put off on his countrymen as a compendium of pure English law a treatise of which the entire form and a third of the contents were directly borrowed from the Corpus Juris...