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  • Unde et nos pie credimus, confidimus et speramus, quod Theothocos, sancta polorum terreque potentissima imperatrix, inter alia loca dominacionis sue ortum sibi deliciarum preuiderit, elegerit et constituerit istud sanctum monasterium ex antiquo, in quod libenter perambulauit et frequenter, clausum Dei custodia circumdedit et protexit diligenter, ex quo orationum feruencium et uirtutum omnium spirauit odor suauissimus habundanter.

    Sensual Encounters: Monastic Women and Spirituality in Medieval Germany 2008

  • Low Sunday is also called by some liturgical writers Pascha clausum, signifying the close of the Easter Octave, and "Quasimodo Sunday", from the Introit at Mass — "Quasi modo geniti infantes, rationabile, sine dolo lac concupiscite", — which words are used by the Church with special reference to the newly baptized neophytes, as well as in general allusion to man's renovation through the Resurrection.

    Archive 2009-04-01 bls 2009

  • No, the “breaking” in this phrase is “breaking the close,” from the ancient writ of trespass quare clausum fregit.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » The Strange Practice of Indicting in the Conjunctive: 2009

  • Maitland's The Forms of Action at Common Law (1909) is the classic treatise on trespass quare clausum fregit, trespass vi et armis, trespass on the case, and all those other terms that used to convince many first-year law students to buy copies of Black's Law Dictionary that they never used again.

    Language and Simplification in Law 2006

  • With that in mind, I stand assured that all right-thinking people will agree with me that the "Empire State" would do well to retain the writ of trespass quare clausum fregit.

    Judges in shorts. Ann Althouse 2008

  • The poet saith, Nec vultu destrue verba tuo: a man may destroy the force of his words with his countenance; so may he of his deeds, saith Cicero, recommending to his brother affability and easy access; Nil interest habere ostium apertum, vultum clausum: it is nothing won to admit men with an open door, and to receive them with a shut and reserved countenance.

    The Advancement of Learning 2003

  • Deinde Jugurtha postero die cum Aulo in colloquio verba facit: 'tametsi ipsum cum exercitu fame et ferro clausum tenet, [231] tamen se memorem humanarum rerum, si secum foedus faceret, incolumes omnes sub jugum missurum, [232] praeterea uti diebus decem

    C. Sallusti Crispi De Bello Catilinario Et Jugurthino 86 BC-34? BC Sallust

  • The latter have greater rivalry in the _hordes_ of practitioners from the interior whom the "new code" have driven from their _trespass quare clausum fregit_ into the city.

    The International Monthly Magazine - Volume V - No II Various

  • This private note, discussing casually and curtly the great river of the West, and the minister who endeavored to make it a _flumen clausum_ to the colonists, nearly equidistant in date between the

    Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 098, February, 1876 Various

  • Ambitio multos mortales falsos fieri subegit, aliud clausum in pectore, aliud in lingua promptum habere, amicitias inimicitiasque non ex re, sed ex commodo aestimare, magisque vultum quam ingenium bonum habere.

    C. Sallusti Crispi De Bello Catilinario Et Jugurthino 86 BC-34? BC Sallust

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