Evolution of Law: Sources of ancient and primitive lawLittle, Brown,, 1915 - Law |
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... Clodius , in a book of his entitled Strictures on Chronology , avers that the ancient registers of Rome were lost when the city was sacked by the Gauls , and that those which are now extant were counterfeited , to flatter and serve the ...
... Clodius , in a book of his entitled Strictures on Chronology , avers that the ancient registers of Rome were lost when the city was sacked by the Gauls , and that those which are now extant were counterfeited , to flatter and serve the ...
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... Clodius , who had been to Aricia , met him on his road . Milo was in his carriage with his wife , and was accompanied by a numerous retinue , among whom were some gladiators . Clodius was on horseback , with about thirty armed men . The ...
... Clodius , who had been to Aricia , met him on his road . Milo was in his carriage with his wife , and was accompanied by a numerous retinue , among whom were some gladiators . Clodius was on horseback , with about thirty armed men . The ...
Page 624
... Clodius has fed on rapine , or conflagration , and on every sort of public disaster ; and who were , even in the assembly held yesterday , exhorted 1 to teach you by their clamor , what you were to decide . But such shouts , if any ...
... Clodius has fed on rapine , or conflagration , and on every sort of public disaster ; and who were , even in the assembly held yesterday , exhorted 1 to teach you by their clamor , what you were to decide . But such shouts , if any ...
Page 625
... Clodius ; and we shall not entreat you to pardon us this one offence in consideration of our many eminent services to the republic , nor shall we demand , if the death of Publius Clodius was your safety , that on that account you should ...
... Clodius ; and we shall not entreat you to pardon us this one offence in consideration of our many eminent services to the republic , nor shall we demand , if the death of Publius Clodius was your safety , that on that account you should ...
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... Clodius fell was contrary to the interests of the republic . But , in fact , the senate has approved , not merely by ... Clodius cause the senate such concern and sorrow that any new process of investigation need have been ...
... Clodius fell was contrary to the interests of the republic . But , in fact , the senate has approved , not merely by ... Clodius cause the senate such concern and sorrow that any new process of investigation need have been ...
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Page 393 - And he that stealeth a man, and selleth him, or if he be found in his hand, he shall surely be put to death.
Page 392 - For all manner of trespass, whether it be for ox, for ass, for sheep, for raiment, or for any manner of lost thing, which another challengeth to be his, the cause of both parties shall come before the judges; and whom the judges shall condemn, he shall pay double unto his neighbour.
Page 414 - When a man hath taken a wife, and married her, and it come to pass that she find no favour in his eyes, because he hath found some uncleanness in her: then let him write her a bill of divorcement, and give it in her hand, and send her out of his house.
Page 439 - If a man shall steal an ox, or a sheep, and kill it, or sell it; he shall restore five oxen for an ox, and four sheep for a sheep.
Page 435 - They drive away the ass of the fatherless, they take the widow's ox for a pledge.
Page 403 - If a man shall cause a field or vineyard to be eaten, and shall put in his beast, and shall feed in another man's field ; of the best of his own field, and of the best of his own vineyard, shall he make restitution.
Page 401 - If thou lend money to any of my people with thee that is poor, thou shalt not be to him as a creditor; neither shall ye lay upon him usury.
Page 410 - And it shall be, if thou have no delight in her, then thou shalt let her go whither she will ; but thou shalt not sell her at all for money, thou shalt not make merchandise of her, because thou hast humbled her.
Page 389 - Then both the men between whom the controversy is shall stand before the Lord, before the priests and the judges, which shall be in those days...
Page 437 - But if the ox were wont to push with his horn in time past, and it hath been testified to his owner, and he hath not kept him in, but that he hath killed a man or a woman; the ox shall be stoned, and his owner also shall be put to death.