gravamina

The gravamina or grievances of the Empire articulated regularly at the

REFORMATION LEWIS W. SPITZ 1968

German city, and renewed in an offensive manner the earlier antipapal complaints of the Germans, the famous "Centum (101) gravamina teutonicae nationis"; Pastor adds (op.cit. 97) that the failure of

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux 1840-1916 1913

A list of the gravamina of the Churches and the clerics, discussed at the Council of Vienne (1311), contains ample proof of the abuse of authority to which the Church was subjected, and the writer of the poem "Avisemens pour le roy Loys," composed in 1315 for Louis X, exhorted this new king to live in peace with the Church, which Philip

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss 1840-1916 1913

But the most serious gravamina have been laid at the door of those Blue Lodges of Missouri which deliberately sought to secure the election of pro-slavery candidates by fair means or foul.

Stephen A. Douglas A Study in American Politics Allen Johnson 1900

As evidence of his desire to remove this most tangible of Southern gravamina, Douglas introduced a supplementary fugitive slave bill on

Stephen A. Douglas A Study in American Politics Allen Johnson 1900

But Eusebius, who was still in towering wrath, refused to withdraw what he had said, and endeavoured to thrust his schedule of gravamina into the

Gathering Clouds: A Tale of the Days of St. Chrysostom 1831-1903 1895

Arch. suorum suffraganeorum sibi subditorum universorum, prælatorum pariter et cleri procuratorum, convocationem isto anno apud Londonias semel et secundo, propter gravamina et oppressiones, de die in diem per summum pontificem et D.

Notes and Queries, Number 183, April 30, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc Various 1852

Further, if the ruler or regent, as the organ of the supreme power, proceeds in violation of the laws, as in imposing taxes, recruiting soldiers, and so on, contrary to the law of equality in the distribution of the political burdens, the subject may oppose complaints and objections (gravamina) to this injustice, but not active resistance.

The Science of Right 1790

Lewis XII strove in vain to alarm him by the National Council of Tours, -- Germany, by severe gravamina (complaints of national grievances against the Papal

Luther Examined and Reexamined A Review of Catholic Criticism and a Plea for Revaluation 1904