Thus, in France and Scotland, down to the seventeenth century, the lord possessed the right of jus primae noctis in the case of all his newly married vassals.
In like manner we find that during pregnancy, especially in the early stages of it, the patient is annoyed with a great variety of symptoms more or less indicative of derangement in the functions of the primae viae.
Seidlitz powder; and thus all sources of irritation in the primae viae prevented as far as possible.
Jus primae noctis: works on, i, 38; as evidence of promiscuity, 51 and n.
It was not exacted from a free man, which is corroborative proof of its origin in the Jus Primae Noctis, of the feudal lord.
This salt not only corrects the acidity in the primae viae, but likewise brings away by stool a quantity of viscid slimy matter, so acrid, as to burn and excoriate the parts as it passes out.
This jus primae noctis was exercised by the priests" (Brinton, M.
Roth (67) cites O'Donnell to the effect that with the Kunandaburi tribe the jus primae noctis is allowed all the men present at the camp without regard to class or kin.
The quantity of gas thus accumulated in the 'primae viae' is often enormous.
The term jus primae noctis is especially applied to the alleged "right of the lord" in feudal times; but the existence of even this custom as a legal privilege is still an unsettled question.
Hence the jus primae noctis, exercised by a priest, king, or other distinguished person, is sometimes regarded as an honor: ibid.
See also his Slavische Geschichtsquellen zur Streitfrage über das Jus Primae Noctis (Posen, 1886); his paper in ZFE.
To these privileges in general the name of jus primae noctis has been given.
And their objects, the modes and mutual relations of our primae intentiones or direct concepts, are called entia rationis--logical entities.
The principal use of this medicine is where the primae viae abound with mucous matter, and the lungs are oppressed by tenacious phlegm.
Its purgative quality naturally led me to give it in febrile diseases which seem to arise from viscidity in the primae viae; and in these cases it succeeded to admiration, even when the sick did not void worms.
The jus primae noctis, enjoyed by men of the bridegroom's totem.
The participation of many men in the jus primae noctis is open to various explanations.
They pass through theprimae viae unaltered, and may therefore fairly be presumed to be inert.
Death often appears to result from the shock to the nervous system, from intense exhaustion, or from mortification or intense inflammation of the primae viae.
It is more readily soluble in the juices of the primae viae, and is milder than most of the aloetic pills without soap.
According to a description of the Bavarian judge of the court of appeals, Mr. Welsh, a tax for redeeming the jus primae noctis still existed in Bavaria in the eighteenth century.
In Béarn this practice led to the custom that all first-born children of marriages in which the "jus primae noctis" had been practiced, were regarded as of free estate.
According to the accounts given by the Bavarian Judge of the Supreme Court of Appeals, Welsch, the obligation to redeem the "jus primae noctis" existed in Bavaria as late as the eighteenth century.
The jus primae noctis of the medieval feudal lord continues in another form in these very days of ours.
Out of this right there arose in Bearn the usage that all the first-born of marriages, in which the "jus primae noctis" was exercised, were of free rank.
This remedy was administered as an absorbent, in case of pains or convulsions supposed to be produced by acidity in the primae viae.
Postquam autem in Angliam redii, decrevi meo solito uti ornatu, et domum accersito amico quodam primae laudis et in vita et in 225 doctrina, ostendi cultum quo uti statuissem.
It is, besides, a matter of course that factory servitude, like any other, and to an even higher degree, confers the jus primae noctis upon the master.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "primae" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
