Do not be astonished that legistsreject the absolute.
Bonaparte, who on other questions had given his legists so much trouble, had nothing to say about property.
There is a philosophy in the action of these printers, to which neither economists nor legists have ever risen.
Devoted to studies both laborious and severe, entitled in all respects to the esteem of their fellow-citizens by their knowledge and eloquence our legists deserve but one reproach, that of an excessive deference to arbitrary laws.
The legists knew this very well, but instead of opposing, as they ought, this accumulation of profits, they accepted and sanctioned the whole.
Is it not true thatlegists are governed by caprice in giving and taking away rights?
But I must close this chapter with an exposition of one of those startling truths which never have been dreamed of by legistsor economists.
At {131}the same hour the legists sentence passed, Sir Jaufry, riding quickly with the maid, before the towers of Augier arrived.
If the Roman legists had seen this analogy, they undoubtedly would have hesitated less over the question of expropriation for the sake of public utility.
This soon became impracticable, so that the legistsrelaxed the prescription by concessions to "the force of necessity.
If this contract be observed, the legistsnot only are ready to acknowledge the bad rulers of the world, but even to preach loyalty towards them to the laity.
This did not prevent Spanish legists and theologians from defending the regalías.
What I shall farther observe is that before it began there were but few complaints among the people, and few pleas; as also few Legistsin England, and very few at Oxford.
All the ingenuity of the Jewish legists was directed to the attainment of this end.
When an ancient ordinance ceased to be of practical value the Jewish legists simply declared that it had fallen into desuetude.
The story of the legists is now generally rejected.
In that year they were lost; and the legists tell us that they are attempting to reconstruct par oir dire the gist of the lost archetype.
According to the story of the legists who wrote these books--e.
Great Britain; while the Habsburgs were entrenching themselves in Austria; above all, while Philippe le Bel and his legists were consolidating the French monarchy on an absolutist basis, there could be little thought of the holy war.
Thus the story of the legists shrinks down to the regular myth of the primitive legislator, used to give an air of respectability to law-books, which really record an unwritten custom.
But all English legists will tell us that those laws were only for the inhabitants of English blood.
The legists enlarged the number of cases reserved for the king himself to adjudicate.
In the Parliament of Paris, a corps of legistswho understood the Roman law were admitted with the lords, knights, and prelates.
The enfranchisement of the towns, the rise of commerce, the influence gained by the legists and by the Roman law, of which they were the expounders, had betokened the dawn of a new era.
The legists lent their counsel and active support.
Legists of different nationalities, their agreement accounted for, 385.
As a rule, our canonical legistssupport their theories by quotations from the Mohammadan Revealed Law, i.
All these early legists held that the fighting was not religiously incumbent (wájib), and that it was only a voluntary act, and that only those were to be fought against who attacked the Moslems.
There is a difference of opinion among the commentators and canonical legists in this word.
Those legists who held that the polytheists and idolaters may either be fought against or be submitted to the authority of Islam by being tributaries, took the word in its proper sense of submission.
The casuistic sophistry of the canonical legists in deducing these war theories from the Koran is altogether futile.
It was only the legists and juris-consults of a later age who wrongly construed the passage in Sura LX, 10, to mean that the unbelief of either party dissolved the marriage tie.
It is not to be wondered that the Mohammadan legists or the compilers of the Common Law are wrong in this point.
From the last division the same legists deduce the lawfulness of slavery, piracy and constant war against the unbelievers.
He was the founder and teacher of the body of legists known as 'the jurists of Irák.
Though some legists held that proceedings against the deceased had to be commenced within five years after death, others asserted that there was no limit, and the practice of the Inquisition shows that the latter opinion was followed.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "legists" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
