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Page xvi
... slave , by his being beaten and thrown from the Tarpeian Rock ; while various other provisions were made as to theft , fixing minor penalties , where the circumstances were not so grave . The rate of interest was fixed at one per cent ...
... slave , by his being beaten and thrown from the Tarpeian Rock ; while various other provisions were made as to theft , fixing minor penalties , where the circumstances were not so grave . The rate of interest was fixed at one per cent ...
Page xxxvi
... slave had no rights . In the earlier days of Roman law , no one would have conceived this to be unnatural . But philosophy , and the study of morality , taught the later Freedom . jurists that the condition of a slave was a violation ...
... slave had no rights . In the earlier days of Roman law , no one would have conceived this to be unnatural . But philosophy , and the study of morality , taught the later Freedom . jurists that the condition of a slave was a violation ...
Page lv
... slave , to the slave's master . IV . RIGHTS AGAINST PERSONS . persons . 78. A personal right is , as we have said before , a right which one person has against another ; a right to constrain that other to give something to , or do ...
... slave , to the slave's master . IV . RIGHTS AGAINST PERSONS . persons . 78. A personal right is , as we have said before , a right which one person has against another ; a right to constrain that other to give something to , or do ...
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... slave was that of having no caput . Since freeborn members of a Roman family acquired , as such members , the ... slaves ; in order to determine the capacity of a citizen , we may speak of the position of a Latinus and a peregrinus : in ...
... slave was that of having no caput . Since freeborn members of a Roman family acquired , as such members , the ... slaves ; in order to determine the capacity of a citizen , we may speak of the position of a Latinus and a peregrinus : in ...
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... slaves were incapable of contracting a lawful marriage , in the peculiar sense of lawful ' adopted by Roman law , the children of a female slave were neces- sarily slaves . They were called verna when born and reared on the property of ...
... slaves were incapable of contracting a lawful marriage , in the peculiar sense of lawful ' adopted by Roman law , the children of a female slave were neces- sarily slaves . They were called verna when born and reared on the property of ...
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Page 497 - And it is the general intention of the law that, in giving damages for breach of contract, the party complaining should, so far as it can be done by money, be placed in the same position as he would have been in if the contract had been performed.
Page 8 - ... quod vero naturalis ratio inter omnes homines constituit, id apud omnes populos peraeque custoditur vocaturque ius gentium, quasi quo iure omnes gentes utuntur.
Page 16 - Ingenuus is est, qui statim, ut natus est, liber est, sive ex duobus ingenuis matrimonio editus, sive ex libertinis, sive ex altero libertino, altero ingenuo. Sed et si quis ex matre libera nascatur, patre servo, ingenuus nihilo minus nascitur : quemadmodum qui ex matre libera et incerto patre natus est, quoniam vulgo conceptus est.
Page 437 - Ex maleficiis vero proditae actiones aliae tantum poenae persequendae causa comparatae sunt, aliae tam poenae quam rei persequendae et ob id mixtae sunt. Poenam tantum persequitur quis actione furti: sive enim manifesti agatur quadrupli sive nee...
Page 110 - Si quis a non domino, quem dominum esse crederet, bona fide fundum emerit vel ex donatione aliave qua justa causa aeque bona fide acceperit: natural! ratione placuit fructus quos percepit ejus esse pro cultura et cura. Et ideo si postea dominus supervenerit et fundum vindicet, de fructibus ab eo consumptis agere non potest. Ei vero, qui sciens alienum fundum possèdent, non idem concessum est. Itaque cum fundo etiam fructus, licet consumpti sint, cogitur restituere.
Page 322 - In hac quaestione totius ob rem dati tractatus inspici potest qui in his competit speciebus : aut enim do tibi ut des; aut do ut facias; aut facio ut des ; aut facio ut facias.
Page 359 - ... arrarum nomine aliquid fuerit datum : hoc etenim subsecuto,' sive in scriptis sive sine scriptis venditio celebrata est, is qui recusat adimplere contractum, si quidem emptor est, perdit quod dedit, si vero venditor, duplum restituere compellitur, licet nihil super arris expressum est.
Page 363 - ... emptoris damnum est, cui necesse est, licet rem non fuerit nactus, pretium solvere; quidquid enim sine dolo et culpa venditoris accidit, in eo venditor securas est.
Page 101 - Cum ex aliena materia species aliqua facta sit ab aliquo, quaeri solet, quis eorum naturali ratione dominus sit, utrum is qui fecerit, an ille potius qui materiae dominus fuerit : ut ecce si quis ex alienis uvis aut olivis aut spicis vinum aut oleum aut frumentum fecerit, aut ex alieno auro vel argento vel...
Page 36 - ... otherwise, if a woman is still your stepmother, that is, is married to your father, the common rule of law prevents her from marrying you, because a woman cannot have two husbands at the same time : and if she is still your wife's mother, that is, if her daughter is still married to you, you cannot marry her because 8 you cannot have two wives at the same time.