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Although there is some evidence that the mala captus rule may be eroding at the national level, state practice in this regard is not yet so widespread as to confer upon the forum state an obligation to decline jurisdiction merely because the foreign state protests.
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Hac configuratione natus, Aut Lunaticus, aut mente captus.
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Besides they are freed in this from many other infirmities, solitariness makes them more apt to contemplate, suspicion wary, which is a necessary humour in these times, [4074] Nam pol que maxime cavet, is saepe cautor captus est, he that takes most heed, is often circumvented, and overtaken.
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He that respects not this in choosing of his seat, or building his house, is mente captus, mad, [3178] Cato saith, and his dwelling next to hell itself, according to
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Cum mundus extra se sit, et mente captus sit, et nesciat se languere, ut medelam adhibeat.
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[3331] The like pleasure there is in all other studies, to such as are truly addicted to them, [3332] ea suavitas (one holds) ut cum quis ea degustaverit, quasi poculis Circeis captus, non possit unquam ab illis divelli; the like sweetness, which as
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[3315] Continuo eo spectaculo captus delenito maerore
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Thessalonicae amore captus pronotarii, filiae, &c. 5598.
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Phaerus Aegipti rex captus oculis per decennium, oraculum consuluit de uxoris pudicitia.
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Tandem et ipse � viro quodam magni nominis, quem prius vt fertur, lacessiuerat, captus, ac Schalholtiam adductus, ibidem cum filijs duobus, authoritate regij pr鎓ecti, capitis
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