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Empire State

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Juris Civilis. The greatest part of these Novels was composed in Greek, owing to the seat of the empire being then at Constantinople, where few or none spoke Latin in perfection; notwithstanding which some of then were … magisterial offices were then suspended, and these ten commissioners, or Decemviri, became invested with the sole management of State affairs. The Ten Tables they drew up, having been approved by the senate and comitia, were engraved on

Comprehend

To contain to embrace to include as the states comprehended in the Austrian Empire … To contain to embrace to include as the states comprehended in the Austrian Empire

Mediatize

agent or to hold a subordinate position to annex specifically applied to the annexation during the former German empire of a smaller German state to a larger while allowing it a nominal sovereignty and its prince his

VerbarReis Effendi

A title formerly given to one of the chief Turkish officers of state He was chancellor of the empire etc

Alien

who has communicated or traded with an enemy or within specified limits been fined or imprisoned in the Empire, or who was not of good character at the date of the certificate. S. 8 empowers the Governments … the Republic of Ireland. Aliens therefore include both persons having the nationality or citizenship of some other sovereign State recognized by the United Kingdom. Halsbury's Laws of England, Vol. 4(2), 4th Edn., Para 66, p. 76. The

Jus

the magistratus was called judex, as, for instance, the consul and pr'tor (Liv. iii. 55); and under the empire the term 'judex' often designated the pr'ses, Smith's Dict. of Antiq. All law jus) is distributed into two … jus) is distributed into two parts--Jus Gentium and Jus Civile--and the whole body of law peculiar to any state is its Jus Civile (Cic. De Orat. I. 44). The Roman Law, therefore, which is peculiar to the

Torture

was in favour of it. In Rome, under the Republic, only slaves could be tortured, but under the Empire it was applied to freemen in cases of l'sa majestas. Cicero (pro Sulla, c. 28) emphatically denounced it … essentially an instrument to impose the Will of the 'strong' over the 'weak' by suffering, D.K. Basu v. State of West Bengal, AIR 1997 SC 610: (1997) 1 SCC 416: (1997) 1 JT SC 1: (1997) 2

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