The classifications of actiones in Roman law were very numerous.
Consequently that axiom, Actiones et denominationes sunt suppositorum, Actions are to be attributed to the subsistence.
In their actiones vsed towardes others, three thinges ought to be considered: First the maner of their consulting thereupon: Next their part as instrumentes: And last their masters parte, who puts the same in execution.
Forsooth your opinion in this, seemes to carrie most reason with it, and sence yee haue ended, then the actions belonging properly to their owne persones: say forwarde now to their actionesvsed towardes others.
For although all that they confesse is no lie vpon their parte, yet doubtlesly in my opinion, a part of it is not indeede, according as they take it to be: And in this I meane by the actiones of their owne persones.
In two partes their actiones may be diuided; the actiones of their owne persones, and the actiones proceeding from them towardes anie other.
But since the Deuil hath euer a contrarie respecte in all the actiones that GOD employes him in: which is I pray you the end and mark he shoots at in this turne?
Then I pray you, first to speake of that part of their owne persons, and syne ye may come next to their actiones towardes others.
As God gaue responses by Vrim and Thummim, gaue he not his responses by the intralls of beastes, by the singing of Fowles, and by their actionesin the aire?
Footnote 509: The story of the martyrdom of the "Fourteen of Meaux" is told in detail by Crespin, Actiones et Monimenta, fols.
Footnote 251: The letter is given by Crespin, Actioneset Monimenta, fol.
It is to the individual subsisting person or thing that all the actions proceeding from the latter are ascribed: actiones sunt suppositorum: the "suppositum" or person is the principium QUOD agit.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "actiones" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
