The five Books of the Actio Secunda were published afterwards in order that the facts might be thoroughly known.
Crown (qui tam pro rege quam pro se ipso), bear some analogy to the actio popularis of Roman law, from which they are derived (see the statute 4 Hen.
Modern physics, for the most part, still firmly adheres to the older theory of vibration, to the idea of an actio in distans and the eternal vibration of dead atoms in empty space; it rejects the pyknotic theory.
Well, but see the state trials, the actio in proditores, drawn up by our own judges, &c.
But in the absence of such insight we cannot pronounce actio in distans to be intrinsically impossible.
It may well be that if we had a deeper insight into these things we could pronounce actio in distans to be absolutely incompatible with the essences of the things which do as a matter of fact constitute the actual corporeal universe.
There is one effect, one change in facto esse, one change in fieri, and therefore one action as considered in the subject changed, since the action takes place in this latter: actiofit in passo.
This whole supposition is the only thinkable alternative to actio in distans.
Action formally actualizes or perfects the patiens: actio fit in passo.
In Roman law the earliest mode of execution was the seizure, legalized by the actio per manus injectionem, of the debtor as a slave of the creditor.
Under the regime of the actio per manus injectionem, the debtor might dispute the debt--the issue being raised by his finding a substitute (vindex) to conduct the case for him.
Herbart's psychology was preceded by a philosophy of nature, which construes matter from attraction and repulsion, and declares anactio in distans impossible.
As actio in distans is rejected, all the phenomena of motion are traced back to pressure and impulse.
By the actio vi bonorum raptorum quadruple the value could be recovered if the action were brought within a year, only the value if brought after the expiration of a year.
To its latest period Roman law regarded larceny or theft (furtum) as a delict prima facie pursued by a civil remedy--the actio furti for a penalty, the vindicatio or condictio for the stolen property itself or its value.
Here we are brought face to face with the question as to unmediated actio in distans.
For the passage, see In Verrem, Actio Secunda, lib.
This Actio Prima contains the words in which he did appall the judges.
I can only give a few of the many little histories which have been preserved for us in this Actio Secunda; but perhaps these few may suffice to show how a great Roman officer could demean himself in his government.
God's action is no actio in distans, or action where he is not.
Previously such cases had been governed by the maxim actio personalis moritur cum persona.
For the only conceivable actio in distans is that which is mediated by thought, and it is only in so far as we suppose matter to have in it a principle of activity like thought, that we can accept such explanations of its motion.
In like manner we must separate from our notion of matter all ideas of actio in distans--e.
The medieval scholastic philosophers quoted as an absolutely accepted principle the Latin axiom, "actio in distans repugnat.
But the humanity of Christ cannot save us nor help us, because omnis actio est suppositi, whereas the human nature of Christ is not suppositum.
Most persons would naively deem truth to be thereby uttered, and say that by a sort of actio in distans my statement had taken direct hold of the other fact.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "actio" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
