Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In Scots law, a risk.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Rom. & O.Eng. Law) Danger; risk.
- noun In a narrower, judicial sense: Accident or
casus , as distinguished fromdolus andculpa , and hence relieving one from the duty of performing an obligation.
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- noun law
accident orcasus , as distinguished fromdolus andculpa , and hence relieving one from the duty of performing an obligation
Etymologies
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Examples
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Fuerunt alii similis amentiae, cives Romani — — Multi enim omnis aetatis, omnis ordinis, utriusque sexus, etiam vocuntur in periculum et vocabuntur.] 189 Tertullian ad Scapulum.
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 1206
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Indeed Ubi periculum took its cue from the events in Viterbo to prescribe a particularly tough dietary regimen for the conclave.
Delizia! John Dickie 2008
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Ubi periculum placed heavy restrictions upon the cardinals locked up to choose a supreme pontiff.
Delizia! John Dickie 2008
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After his election Gregory X set out some hard-line regulations for future elections: his 1274 constitution Ubi periculum contains the first use of the word conclave—from the Latin cum clavis, “with a key.”
Delizia! John Dickie 2008
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Ab arte ideo rejiciendum, ob periculum suffocationis.
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Quoties sit, ut Principes novitium aulicum divitiis et dignitatibus pene obruant, et multorum annorum ministrum, qui non semel pro hero periculum subiit, ne teruntio donent, &c.
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Saturnalian or Dionysian feasts, when as he said, nullum libertati periculum est, servants in old Rome had liberty to say and do what them list.
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Ubique periculum, ubique dolor, ubique naufragium, in hoc ambitu quocunque me vertam.
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Haud scio an majus discrimen ab his qui blandiuntur, an ab his qui territant; ingens utrinque periculum: alii ad securitatem ducunt, alii afflictionum magnitudine mentem absorbent, et in desperationem trahunt.
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Usitatissimus morbus cum sit, utile est hujus visceris accidentia considerare, nec leve periculum hujus causas morbi ignorantibus.
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