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Forecheapum

Forecheapum, pr'-emption, forestalling the market, Jac. Law Dict.

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 parts--Jus Gentium and Jus Civile--and the whole body of … were brought before him; he appointed a judex for that purpose, and gave him instructions. Accordingly, the whole procedure was expressed by the two phrases Jus and Judicium; of which the former comprehended all that took place

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Clear days

the time is to be reckoned exclusively as well of the first day as the last. (Chit. Arch. Pr.) As to the meaning of 'clear,' generally, in deeds, wills, and other documents, see Stroud's Jud. Dict.

Fasti

impiety (sine piaculo) be transacted before the pr'tor were technically denominated fasti dies, i.e., lawful days. Consult Smith's Dict. of Antiq. … Fasti, fas signifies divine law; the epithet fastus is properly applied to anything in accordance with divine law, and hence those days upon which legal business might without

Corpus juris civilis

century: at any rate, it became common from the date of the edition of D.Gothofredus of 1604, Smith's Dict. … Digestum Vetus, Infortiatum, and Digestum Novum. The fourth volume contained the first nine books of the Codex Repetit' Pr'lectionis. The fifth volume contained the Institutes, the Liber Authenticorum or Novell', and the three last books of the

Pandect', or Digesta

a constitution, both in Greek and Latin, which confirmed the work, and gave to it legal authority, Smith's Dict. of Antiq. The number of writes from whose works extracts were made is thirty-nine. Justinian's plan embraced two … of those jurists who had enjoyed the Jus respondendi, or, as it is expressed by the emperor, 'antiquorum prudentium quibus auctoritatem conscribendarum interpretandarumque legum sacratissimi principes pr'buerunt.' The compilation, however, comprises extracts from some writers of the

Institutions

far as they had been incorporated in the digest, Smith's Dict. of Antiq. It was therefore necessary to prepare an elementary treatise, and the Institutes were published a month before the Pandects, A.D. 533, and designed as

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