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Status

Status. The legal position or condition of a person. in Roman law this term indicated the position of a persona. A full Roman citizen must have possessed the status

That portion of the Christian church which prevails in the countries once comprised in the Eastern Roman Empire and the countries converted to Christianity by missionaries from them Its full official title is The Orthodox

Mancipatio

Mancipatio. Every father, in the Roman law, had such an authority over his son, that before the son could be released from his subjection

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In jure

In jure, means (1) According to the law. (2) Roman law. Before the praetor or other magistrate. In jure referred to the first stage of a Roman trial,

Institutions

cunabula). The work was divided into four books, subdivided into titles. The Institutes are the elements of the Roman Law, and were composed at the command of the Emperor Justinian, by Trebonian, Dorotheus, and The ophilus, who

Lex

Lex, law. In the Roman Law it was a resolution adopted by the old Roman populus (Patricians and Plebeians) in the comitia, on

Religion

by Nonconformists are removed by the Toleration Act (1 W. & M. c. 15), and other Acts. The Roman Catholic Relief Act, 1829, however, subjects Jesuits and members of other religious orders in the Church of Rome

Mixed actions

form a species of the personal action of trespass. Steph. Plead. App. vii. See Now ACTION. Those in Roman Law, in which some specific thing was demanded, and where also some personal obligations were claimed to be

Monasteries Dissolution Acts (English)

Br. & Had. Cm. i. 466, and ii. 68. As to existing law of banishment of members of Roman Catholic religious orders (not being nunneries), see ROMAN CATHOLICS

Quaestor

continued to be their principal concern, but they enlarged their functions as their numbers increased, The Elements of Roman Law R.W. Lee, 15 (4th End., 1956). A Roman magistrate.

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