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Solatium - compensation law: 'sum of money paid, over and above the actual damages, as a solace for injured feelings'
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Just as plants of higher organization choose their soils, some growing in the water and some on land, so the _Peronospora infestans_ chooses its host plant; and its soil is this species, the _Solatium tuberosum_.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 595, May 28, 1887 Various
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Solatium to encourage honesty in public officials, 208
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SolatiaJ} Solatium, viz. fumitnr pro eo quod rei sdicnjns amiiTx loco datnr, nnde damnum reikrciri queat: Faber.
T. Lucretii Cari De rerum natura libri sex Titus Lucretius Carus , Thomas Creech , George Gordon Byron Byron 1770
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