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... judgment may be bilaterally penal , that is , may both impoverish the defendant and enrich the plaintiff ; or it may be unilaterally penal , that is , may impoverish the defendant without enriching the plaintiff , e . g . in a suit for ...
... judgment may be bilaterally penal , that is , may both impoverish the defendant and enrich the plaintiff ; or it may be unilaterally penal , that is , may impoverish the defendant without enriching the plaintiff , e . g . in a suit for ...
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... Judgment or Condemnation , unless this judgment is satisfied by a voluntary submission of the party condemned , the ultimate sanction soon quits the form of obligation , and presents itself in the shape of Execution , that is , of ...
... Judgment or Condemnation , unless this judgment is satisfied by a voluntary submission of the party condemned , the ultimate sanction soon quits the form of obligation , and presents itself in the shape of Execution , that is , of ...
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... judgment of the mercantile world would make a commodity different in kind , the error is essential : when the difference does not amount to a difference in kind , the error is held to be non - essential and does not avoid the ...
... judgment of the mercantile world would make a commodity different in kind , the error is essential : when the difference does not amount to a difference in kind , the error is held to be non - essential and does not avoid the ...
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... judgment were placed by our ancestors under a guardian's control : jurists invented a kind of guardian subject to female dic- tation . ' The latest employment of Coemption enabled a woman to break the ties of agnation and thus acquire ...
... judgment were placed by our ancestors under a guardian's control : jurists invented a kind of guardian subject to female dic- tation . ' The latest employment of Coemption enabled a woman to break the ties of agnation and thus acquire ...
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... judgment exposes them to the designs of the fraudulent , and that humanity re- quires them to be put under the control and authority of a guar- dian , seems rather specious than true , for women above the age of puberty administer their ...
... judgment exposes them to the designs of the fraudulent , and that humanity re- quires them to be put under the control and authority of a guar- dian , seems rather specious than true , for women above the age of puberty administer their ...
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Aelia Sentia agnates alien autem bonorum capitis causa civil law cloth coemption condictio contract creditor debt debtor defendant delict disposition dominion eius enim etiam exceptio Extra fcap factum father fcap filius filiusfamilias formula fuerit Gaius guardian heir heredes hereditas hereditatem ideo inheritance Inst institution intentio intention inter interdict itaque iure iuris judex jure juris jurists Justinian Latin legatee lege legis lex Aelia Sentia lex Julia liberi Litis contestatio mancipatio mancipation manu manumission modo neque Nexum Numerius Negidius obligatio obligation party pecunia personal action plaintiff posse possessio possession possessionem possessor potest praetor proprietor quae quam quia quidem quis quod quoque real action Roman law sanction Savigny senatusconsult servitude sive slave status stipulatio stipulation successor sunt tamen testamento testator thing tion Titius Twelve Tables Ulpian usucapion Uti possidetis velut vero vindicatio
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Page 25 - Omnes populi qui legibus et moribus reguntur, partim suo proprio, partim communi omnium hominum iure utuntur; nam quod quisque populus ipse sibi ius constituit, id ipsius proprium est vocaturque ius civile, quasi ius proprium civitatis; quod vero naturalis ratio inter omnes homines constituit, id apud omnes populos peraeque custoditur vocaturque ius gentium, quasi quo iure omnes gentes utuntur.
Page 395 - No action shall be brought whereby to charge the defendant upon any special promise to answer for the debt, default, or miscarriage of another person, unless the agreement upon which such action shall be brought, or some memorandum or note thereof, shall be in writing, and signed by the party to be charged therewith, or some other person thereunto by him lawfully authorized.
Page 2 - Every positive law, or every law simply and strictly so called, is set by a sovereign person, or a sovereign body of persons, to a member or members of the independent political society wherein that person or body is sovereign or supreme. Or (changing the expression) it is set by a monarch, or sovereign number, to a person or persons in a state of subjection to its author.
Page 643 - Ac de iure quidem praediorum sanctum apud nos est iure civili, ut in iis vendendis vitia dicerentur, quae nota essent venditori. Nam, cum ex duodecim tabulis satis esset ea praestari, quae essent lingua nuncupata, quae qui infitiatus esset, dupli poenam subiret, a iuris consultis etiam reticentiae poena est constituta ; quicquid enim esset 3 in praedio vitii, id statuerunt, si venditor sciret, nisi nomina66 tim dictum esset, praestari oportere.
Page 205 - ... a civil solemnity, like mancipation, a man could not be represented by an independent agent; but when...
Page 305 - Gentiles sunt, qui inter se eodem nomine sunt. Non est satis. Qui ab ingenuis oriundi sunt. Ne id quidem satis est. Quorum majorum nemo servitutem servivit. Abest etiam nunc. Qui capite non sunt deminuti.
Page 353 - Nexum est, ut ait Gallus Aelius, quodcunque per aes et libram geritur, idque necti dicitur; quo in genere sunt haec, testamenti factio, nexi datio, nexi liberatio, Festus, under the word
Page 588 - ... naturale est quam eo genere quidque dissolvere quo colligatum est. Ideo verborum obligatio verbis tollitur ; nudi consensus obligatio contrario consensu dissolvitur
Page 213 - That no will shall be valid unless it shall be in writing and executed in manner herein-after mentioned ; (that is to say,) it shall be signed at the foot or end thereof by the testator, or by some other person in his presence and by his direction; and such signature shall be made or acknowledged by the testator in the presence of two or more witnesses present at the same time, and such witnesses shall attest and shall subscribe the will in the presence of the testator, but no form of attestation...
Page 427 - QUOD EGO TIBI PROMISI, HABESNE ACCEPTUM ? et tu respondeas : HABEO.