A Dictionary of Greek and Roman AntiquitiesWilliam Smith, Charles Anthon Harper & brothers, 1843 - 1116 pages |
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... party prosecuted in the usual way , first before the prætor , to the action ; but every individual who disputes in jure , and then before the judex , in judicio . " When the right , becomes , by such act of disputing , a party the whole ...
... party prosecuted in the usual way , first before the prætor , to the action ; but every individual who disputes in jure , and then before the judex , in judicio . " When the right , becomes , by such act of disputing , a party the whole ...
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... parties , which was called his arbitrium , and was followed by the condemnatio if it was not obeyed . The division of actions into perpetuæ and tempo- rales had reference to the time within which an action might be brought , after the ...
... parties , which was called his arbitrium , and was followed by the condemnatio if it was not obeyed . The division of actions into perpetuæ and tempo- rales had reference to the time within which an action might be brought , after the ...
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... parties , on the day appointed , were summoned by a crier ( praco ) , when the plaintiff made his claim or demand ... party . The defendant might either deny the plaintiff's claim , or he might reply to it by a plea , exceptio . If he ...
... parties , on the day appointed , were summoned by a crier ( praco ) , when the plaintiff made his claim or demand ... party . The defendant might either deny the plaintiff's claim , or he might reply to it by a plea , exceptio . If he ...
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... parties . If the action be among partners for dividing that which belongs to them all , the adjudication would run thus ... party might be called adversarius with respect to the other . Originally , no person who was not sui juris could ...
... parties . If the action be among partners for dividing that which belongs to them all , the adjudication would run thus ... party might be called adversarius with respect to the other . Originally , no person who was not sui juris could ...
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... parties . All these proofs were committed to writing , and placed in a box se- cured by a seal ( exivoç2 ) till they ... party , might be compelled by a díkŋ eiç kμpaviv sus , and rising to the height of five or seven feet.11 KATάOTAσIV ...
... parties . All these proofs were committed to writing , and placed in a box se- cured by a seal ( exivoç2 ) till they ... party , might be compelled by a díkŋ eiç kμpaviv sus , and rising to the height of five or seven feet.11 KATάOTAσIV ...
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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
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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.