There were other sources of revenue--rehabilitations or dispensations from the sanbenito and disabilities, commutations of punishment and the pecuniary penances known as penas y penitencias.
If Juan I was unable to prevent the massacres he at least was determined not to let them pass unpunished; many executions followed and some commutations for money payments were granted.
This last clause shows thatcommutations were by no means always thus liberally disposed of, and in fact they often inured to the benefit of those imposing them.
Commutative justice receives its name from the fact that it is oftenest called for in commutations (i.
There are various kinds of commutations or exchanges used by commutative justice, but they do not create new species of justice, since they are only accidental modes of the act of giving the equivalent of what one receives.
Nor should a confessor be easy in recommending commutations of private vows, lest those who have taken them be encouraged to make continual changes.
Voluntary commutations are when a man voluntarily transfers his chattel to another person.
To legal justice, as regards things to be observed by all, he ascribes legislative justice, which he describes as "the science of political commutations relating to the community.
In the commutations of human life, civil laws determine that which is just.
Sins are committed in relation to involuntary commutations by doing an injury to one's neighbor against his will: and this can be done in two ways, namely by deed or by word.
In connection with the other voluntary commutations no special kind of sin is to be found distinct from rapine and theft.
On the other hand in commutations something is paid to an individual on account of something of his that has been received, as may be seen chiefly in selling and buying, where the notion of commutation is found primarily.
Ortiz, when sent to Sicily as inquisitor, in 1541, certaincommutations as part of his salary.
Thus, in 1589, the Valencia convent of the new Discalced Carmelites of Santa Teresa petitioned for the grant of the commutations of certain sanbenitos and soon afterwards the Dominican convent made a similar request.
It is probable that commutationsfor money became too frequent for the good of the naval service, for in 1556 the Suprema strictly forbade them for the future, doubtless under royal command.
Commutations were contrived for roguish registers and proctors, and lay chancellors, but not for the clergy.
We may well question the purity of zeal which provided punishments and disabilities for heresy and at the same time chaffered over the market price of commutations and dispensations through which those penalties could be evaded.
Again, good as defined by reason and put into our operations as something right and due, is found chiefly in commutations and distributions in respect of another person, and on a basis of equality.
For in the future life there will be no concupiscences and pleasures in matters of food and sex; nor fear and daring about dangers of death; nor distributions and commutations of things employed in this present life.
In commutations something is delivered to an individual on account of something of his that has been received, as may be seen chiefly in selling and buying, where the notion of commutation is found primarily.
Commutative justice directs commutationsthat can take place between two persons.
Commutations are but a result of private property; in a state of communism there could be no commutation.
It will be noticed, however, that the principles of commutative justice all treat of the commutations of external goods--in other words, they assume the existence of property of external goods in individuals.
After a postponement of two days on some flimsy pretext the official intimation of the commutations was given to the prisoners on Wednesday, May 20.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "commutations" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
