A Dictionary of Greek and Roman AntiquitiesWilliam Smith, Charles Anthon Harper & brothers, 1843 - 1116 pages |
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... court . The parties might settle their dispute on their way to the court , or the defendant might be bailed by a vindex . The vindex must not be confounded with the vades . This settlement of disputes on the way was called transactio in ...
... court . The parties might settle their dispute on their way to the court , or the defendant might be bailed by a vindex . The vindex must not be confounded with the vades . This settlement of disputes on the way was called transactio in ...
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... courts against persons who were considered to time known to kings only , and to very few of them , ' have misled the people , the courts of justice , or the was unknown to him . He has evidently confound ... court , who introduced 21.
... courts against persons who were considered to time known to kings only , and to very few of them , ' have misled the people , the courts of justice , or the was unknown to him . He has evidently confound ... court , who introduced 21.
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... courts were distinguished into two classes : ay @ veç urinтoi , suits not to be assessed , in which the fine or other ... court , and ruãobal of that proposed by the plaintiff.11 According to some writers , the penalty was fixed The form ...
... courts were distinguished into two classes : ay @ veç urinтoi , suits not to be assessed , in which the fine or other ... court , and ruãobal of that proposed by the plaintiff.11 According to some writers , the penalty was fixed The form ...
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... court , the disability of the plaintiff , or privi- lege of the defendant and the like , would have a tendency to show that the cause in its present state could not be brought into court ( un eloaywyov elvaι Tv dikny ) : the latter ...
... court , the disability of the plaintiff , or privi- lege of the defendant and the like , would have a tendency to show that the cause in its present state could not be brought into court ( un eloaywyov elvaι Tv dikny ) : the latter ...
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... court of the archon must have been that in and the rejection would be completed and declared by the voice of the herald . It is probable that an adoptive father also might resort to this remedy against the ingratitude of a son ...
... court of the archon must have been that in and the rejection would be completed and declared by the voice of the herald . It is probable that an adoptive father also might resort to this remedy against the ingratitude of a son ...
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Page 208 - And ye shall be holy men unto me: neither shall ye eat any flesh that is torn of beasts in the field; ye shall cast it to the dogs.
Page 50 - They bound themselves by an oath that ' they would destroy no city of the Amphictyons, nor cut off their streams in war or peace ; and if any should do so, they would march against him and destroy his cities; and should any pillage the property of the god, or be privy to, or plan anything against what was in his temple at Delphi, they would take vengeance on him with hand, and foot, and voice, and all their might
Page 104 - Each legion was divided into ten cohorts, each cohort into three maniples, and each maniple into two...
Page 126 - The chief duties of augurs were to observe and report supernatural signs. They were also the repositories of the ceremonial law, and had to advise on the expiation of prodigies and other matters of religious observance. The sources of their art were threefold: first, the formulas and traditions of the college, which in ancient times met on the nones of every month ; secondly, the...
Page 259 - With us practically, if not in theory, the essential object of a state hardly embraces more than the protection of life and property. The Greeks, on the other hand, had the most vivid conception of the state as a whole, every part of which was to co-operate to some great end to which all other duties were considered as subordinate.
Page 164 - Ep. 75) alludes to a person who married in order to comply with the law. That which was caducum came, in the first place, to those among the heredes who had children ; and if the heredes had no children, it came among those of the legatees who had children. The law gave the jus accrescendi, that is, the right to the caducum as far as the third degree of consanguinity, both ascending and descending (Ulp. Frag.