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  • The first kind of exchange according to St. Thomas, however, does not properly pertain to business people negotiatores but to ordinary households or public offices which have to provide for the necessities of life for the home or the city. “talis commutatio non proprie pertinet ad negotiatores sed magis ad oeconomicos vel politicos, qui habent providere vel domui vel civitati de rebus necessariis vitae.”

    Chesterton and Capitalism Part Two 2008

  • Islandi constructa, vsque ad illud tempus, quo illis cum Noruagis, qui ligna sufficiebant, negociatio, et mercium commutatio esse desijt, qu� inde paulatim collabi incipiunt: Cum nec syluas

    The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

  • Islandi constructa, vsque ad illud tempus, quo illis cum Noruagis, qui ligna sufficiebant, negociatio, et mercium commutatio esse desijt, quæ inde paulatim collabi incipiunt: Cum nec syluas ædificijs aptas habeamus, nec fluctuum maris beneficio iam vt olim ad littora, quod minima ex parte sufficiat, adferatur: Nec mercatores extranei inopiæ nostræ succurrant.

    A briefe commentarie of Island, by Arngrimus Ionas 2003

  • Abundatis, inquit, vos pecunia, et estis inopes justitiæ; contra, illi abundant justitia et sunt inopes pecuniæ; fiat quædam commutatio; date vos piis egentibus pecuniam quæ vobis affluit, et illis deficit; sic futurum est, ut illi vicissim justitiam suam qua abundant, et qua vos estis destituti, vobis communicent.

    The Doctrine of Justification by Faith 1616-1683 1965

  • Now truly the same Cicero says, "_In imperita muititudine est varietas et inconstantia et crebra tanquam tempestatum, sic sententiarum commutatio_."

    Sidonia, the Sorceress : the Supposed Destroyer of the Whole Reigning Ducal House of Pomerania — Volume 2 Wilhelm Meinhold 1824

  • It is thus conformable to the conception of right in the permutation and exchange of the mine and thine generally (commutatio late sic dicta).

    The Science of Right 1790

  • Abundatis, inquit, vos pecunia, et estis inopes justitiæ; contra, illi abundant justitia et sunt inopes pecuniæ; fiat quædam commutatio; date vos piis egentibus pecuniam quæ vobis affluit, et illis deficit; sic futurum est, ut illi vicissim justitiam suam qua abundant, et qua vos estis destituti, vobis communicent.”

    The Doctrine of Justification by Faith 1616-1683 1965

  • Sed ubi Romam legati venere et ex praecepto regis hospitibus aliisque, quorum ea tempestate in senatu auctoritas pollebat, magna munera misere, tanta commutatio incessit, uti ex maxima invidia in gratiam et favorem nobilitatis Jugurtha veniret; quorum pars spe, alii praemio inducti, singulos ex senatu ambiundo [76] nitebantur, ne gravius in eum consuleretur. [

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

  • ] [Footnote 638: No _commutatio agnitionis_ takes place, says Irenæus, but only an increased gift (IV.

    History of Dogma, Volume 2 (of 7) Adolph Harnack 1890

  • Plures tamen hîc peregrini quam cives consistunt? usque eò ergo commutatio ipsa locorum gravis non est, ut hic quoque locus a patria quosdam abduxerit. [

    Boswell's Correspondence with the Honourable Andrew Erskine, and His Journal of a Tour to Corsica James Boswell 1767

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