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  • But by all British writers on Roman law, and by many foreign ones, the word _fas_ is used as equivalent to the ius divinum, and sharply distinguished from _ius_.

    The Religious Experience of the Roman People From the Earliest Times to the Age of Augustus W. Warde Fowler 1884

  • From the beginning of the thirteenth century the canonists used the term ius commune to distinguish the general law of the whole

    COMMON LAW PETER STEIN 1968

  • From another point of view the Roman lawyers distinguished between those rules of Roman law — irrespective of whether they belonged to all legal sys - tems or were peculiar to Roman law — which applied to citizens generally (rules which they called ius com - mune), and those which were restricted to a particular group (rules which they called ius singulare).

    COMMON LAW PETER STEIN 1968

  • In like manner the word ius right was first of all used to denote the just thing itself, but afterwards it was transferred to designate the art whereby it is known what is just, and further to denote the place where justice is administered: thus a man is said to appear in jure,a and yet further, we say even that a man who has the office of exercising justice administers the ius even if his sentence be unjust.

    The Political Ideas of St. Thomas Aquinas Dino Bigongiari 1997

  • This conception stems primarily from Aquinas, who held that "the word ius was first of all used to denote the just thing itself" (ST II. ii.q57.art1).

    Hugo Grotius Miller, Jon 2005

  • The Roman term ius was replaced by derivatives of the Latin salsus, meaning “salted”: sauce in France, salsa in Italy and Spain.

    On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen Harold McGee 2004

  • The Roman term ius was replaced by derivatives of the Latin salsus, meaning “salted”: sauce in France, salsa in Italy and Spain.

    On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen Harold McGee 2004

  • He accuses recent writers on the subject of presenting the tradition as having a 'presumption against violence' and thus making it a 'casuistry of means-tests', a set of hoops to be jumped through; and one result of this is to focus attention unduly on what are usually called the ius in bello issues of restraint on the methods to be used in conflict.

    Just War Revisited 2003

  • In the terminology of Roman law, which has been more influential than that of any other legal system, the expression ius commune occurs principally in two such contrasts.

    COMMON LAW PETER STEIN 1968

  • What is commonly called ius ad bellum, the right to use military force was not considered to fall within our mandate.

    Global Issues News Headlines 2009

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