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Roman Catholics. Very severe laws, commonly called the penal laws, were passed against Roman Catholics, generally under the name of Papists (see that title), after the Reformation, an Act of Elizabeth, for instance, 13 Eliz. c. 2, punishing with the penalties of a pr'munire (see that title) any person bringing into this country any Agnus Dei, cross, picture, etc., from Rome; an Act of James, 3 Jac. 1, c. 5, penalizing the sale or purchase of Popish primers; and an Act of William and Mary (11 & 12 Wm. 3, c. 4), punishing any Papist assuming the education of youth with imprisonment for life. Exclusion from Parliament was effected by the requirement of the Declaration against Trans-ubstantiation (see TRANSUBSTANT- IATION) from members of either House by 30 Car. 2, s. 2, and disfranchisement by the requirements of the Oath of Supremacy by 7 & 8 Wm. 3, c. 27, s. 19; while 7 & 8 Wm. 3, c. 24, effected (until 1791) exclusion from the profession of barrister, attorney, or solicitor by requirin...
Roman
Of or pertaining to Rome or the Roman people like or characteristic of Rome the Roman people or things done by Romans as Roman fortitude a Roman aqueduct Roman art...
Roman law
Roman law : the legal system of the ancient Romans that includes written and unwritten law, is based on the traditional law and legislation of the assemblies, resolves of the senate, enactments of the emperors, edicts of the praetors, writings of the jurisconsults, and the codes of the later emperors, and that is the basis for much of the modern civil law systems ...
Greco Roman
Having characteristics that are partly Greek and partly Roman as Greco Roman architecture...
Roman calendar
The calendar of the ancient Romans from which our modern calendars are derived It is said to have consisted originally of ten months Martius Aprilis Maius Junius Quintilis Sextilis September October November and December having a total of 304 days Numa added two months Januarius at the beginning of the year and Februarius at the end making in all 355 days He also ordered an intercalary month Mercedinus to be inserted every second year Later the order of the months was changed so that January should come before February Through abuse of power by the pontiffs to whose care it was committed this calendar fell into confusion It was replaced by the Julian calendar In designating the days of the month the Romans reckoned backward from three fixed points the calends the nones and the ides The calends were always the first day of the month The ides fell on the 15th in March May July Quintilis and October and on the 13th in other months The nones came on the eighth day the ninth counting the id...
Roman Law
Roman Law. The legal system of ancient Romans, forming the basis of modern civil law, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1329....
Romanism
The tenets of the Church of Rome the Roman Catholic religion...
Romanizer
One who Romanizes...
Roman Catholic
Roman Catholic, means and apply to the church which regards the Pope of Rome as its spiritual head. [Christian Marriage Act, 1872 (15 of 1872), s. 3]...
Roman Civil Law
Roman Civil Law. See CIVIL LAW....
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