Of the general prevalence of the disease on this side of the Tweed in that and the subsequent age, there is abundant evidence elsewhere in the Leges Burgorum and other ancient capitularies of Scotch law.
The Scottish “Burrow Lawes” (Leges Burgorum) are generally allowed to have been drawn up as early as the twelfth century.
Contrast this feeling towards them with the feeling shown in the Leges Burgorum and Statuta Gilde of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, printed in the Acta Parliamentorum Scotiæ, vol.
The best of these has long been known as the Leges Henrici Primi, and aspires to be a comprehensive law-book.
The gulf that divides the so-called Leges Henrici (c.
Many of theLeges Regiae were the result of momentary emergencies, and inapplicable to future circumstances.
This collection, which is sometimes called the Leges Regiae, and sometimes the Papyrian Code, did not obtain that confirmation and permanence which might have been expected.
These precautions leave us little room to doubt that the Leges Regiae, and Laws of the Tables, were preserved, and that they remained as they had been originally promulgated by the kings and decemvirs.
Flaccus his art of Poetry, Englished by Ben Jonson, 1640; Leges Convivialis, fol.
Footnote 681: The most complete collection of these codes is in the "Barbarorum leges antiquae," by P.
Cornelius Sylla, by causing to be enacted the great group of statutes called the Leges Corneliæ, had shown what rapid and speedy improvements can be effected by direct legislation.
The proposal was rejected in the famous formula, "Nolumus leges Angliæ mutare," a formula which merely stood for an unreasonable and inhumane obstinacy.
But in the Leges we find that the art of persuasion has risen greatly in Plato's estimation.
Side-note: Contrast of Legeswith Gorgias and Phaedrus.
But the Platonic Leges or Treatise on Laws corresponds only to the second or less ambitious project--a tolerable imitation of the first and best.
Some Platonic expositors regarded the Athenian Stranger in Leges as Plato himself (Diog.
He exposes the fallacy of the attempt made by various critics to explain away the Manichaean doctrine declared in this treatise, and to reconcile the Leges with the Timaeus.
General comparison of Leges with Plato's earlier works 275 Scene of the Leges, not in Athens, but in Krete.
Fundamental dogmas of such creed 419 Leges close, without describing the education proper for the Nocturnal Counsellors.
The theory here given by Plato, represents the state of his own convictions at the time when the Leges were composed.
Side-note: Difference betweenLeges and Republic, illustrated by reference to the Politikus.
This was the first of the Leges Frumentariæ, which were attended with the most injurious effects.
All the reforms of Sulla were effected by means of Leges, which were proposed by him in the Comitia Centuriata, and bore the general name of Leges Corneliæ.
Leges Wisigothorum,' with illustrative extracts from Isidore and Procopius, which is printed at the end of Nivellius' edition.
Sacred Laws; the Leges Sacratae, laws for the violation of which the offender was nominally consecrated to some god--i.
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