A Translation of All the Greek, Latin, Italian, and French Quotations which Occur in Blackstone's Commentaries on the Laws of England: And Also in the Notes of the Editions by Christian, Archbold, and Williams

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Charles Reader ..., M.A. Nattali ..., J. Carfrae, Edinburgh and R. Milliken, Dublin, 1823 - Law - 250 pages

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Page 45 - Ipse autem rex, non debet esse sub homine, sed sub Deo et sub lege, quia lex facit regem. Attribuat igitur rex legi, quod lex attribuit ei, videlicet dominationem et potestatem, non est enim rex, ubi dominatur voluntas et non lex.
Page 135 - Discunt in partes centum diducere. Dicat Filius Albini : si de quincunce remota est Uncia, quid superat ? Poteras dixisse. Triens. Eu ! Rem poteris servare tuam. Redit uncia, quid fit ? Semis.
Page 22 - In universum aestimanti, plus penes peditem roboris: eoque mixti proeliantur, apta et congruente ad equestrem pugnam velocitate peditum, quos ex omni juventute delectos ante aciem locant. Definitur et numerus: centeni ex singulis pagis sunt: idque ipsum inter suos vocantur; et quod primo numerus fuit, jam nomen et honor est.
Page 14 - 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 60 - ... et de plano, sine strepitu et figura judicii, sola facti veritate inspecta.
Page 249 - Nullus liber homo capiatur, vel imprisonetur aut disseisiatur de libero tenemento suo, vel libertatibus vel liberis consuetudinibus suis, aut utlegetur, aut exulet, aut aliquo modo destruatur, nee super eum ibimus, nee super eum mittemus nisi per legale judicium parium suorum vel per legem terra?. Nulli vendemus, nulli negabimus aut differemus rectum vel justiciam.
Page 100 - Si mortuo viro, uxor ejus remanserit, et sine liberis fuerit, dotem suam habedit; si vero uxor cum liberis remanserit, dotem quidem habebit, dum corpus suum legitime survaverit. If at a man's decease, his wife survive, and there be no issue, she shall have her dower; but if she survive with children, she shall have her dower so long as she conducts herself chastely. Vide...
Page 128 - Ferae igitur bestias et volucres et pisces, id est, omnia animalia quaa mari, cœlo, et terra, nascuntur, simul atque ab aliquo capta fuerint. jure gentium statim illius esse incipiunt: quod enim ante nullius est, id naturali ratione occupanti conceditur.
Page 132 - This custom still varies in different places, not only as to the mortuary to be paid, but the person to whom it is payable. In Wales a mortuary or corse-present was due upon the death of every clergyman to the bishop of the diocese; till abolished, upon a recompense given...
Page 249 - No free man shall be taken, or imprisoned, or disseized, or outlawed, or exiled, or any wise destroyed ; nor will we go upon him, nor send upon him, but by the lawful judgment of his peers or by the law of the land. To none will we sell, to none will we deny or delay, right or justice...

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