English Monasteries on the Eve of the Dissolution, Volume 1, Issues 1-2Clarendon Press, 1909 - Great Britain |
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Page 153 - To him that hath shall be given ; and from him that hath not shall be taken away even that which he hath.
Page 26 - Except! sunt fundi bene meritorum, ut in totum privati iuris essent, nee ullam coloniae munificentiam deberent, et essent in solo populi Romani.
Page 181 - It is hardly necessary to say that in the works of agricultural writers of the second half of the sixteenth century and the beginning of the seventeenth (Tusser, Norden, Markham), the more complicated systems of tillage are described more clearly.
Page 41 - Ii sane qui vicis quibus adscript! aunt derelictis et qui homologi more gentilicio nuncupantur, ad alios seu vicos seu dominos transierunt, ad eedem desolati ruris constrictis detentatoribus redire cogantur, qui si exsequenda protraxerint, ad functiones eorum teneantur obnoxii et dominis restituant, quae pro his exsoluta constiterit.
Page 87 - England had a little before this period been rated at four millions a year ; so that the revenue of the monks, even comprehending the lesser monasteries, did not exceed the twentieth part of the national income: a sum vastly inferior to what is commonly apprehended.
Page 27 - ... (Cod. i. 55. 4.) But the Defensores were also magistrates and preservers of order : — " Per omnes regiones in quibus fera et periculi sui nescia latronum fervet insania, probatissimi quique et districtissimi defensores adsint...
Page 9 - CT u, 24, i, of 360, that the clients be made to repay ' debita quaecumque vicani, quorum consortio recesserunt, e propriis facultatibus fisci docebuntur commodis intulisse '. It is very characteristic that those surcharged appear to have no claim against the state. Equality of repartition was no doubt desirable, but it was not the first consideration. It is in this spirit that CT u, i, 26, of 399, ordains 'nullum gratia relevet, nullum iniquae partitionis vexet incommodum, sed pari omnes sorte teneantur',...
Page 64 - Church. At the close of the second century, and the beginning of the third, the...
Page 20 - Valerii, Theodori et Tharsacii examinatio conticiscat, illis dumtaxat sub Augustaliano iudicio pulsandis, qui ex Caesarii et Attici consulatu possessiones sub patrocinio possidere coeperunt. Quos tamen omnes functionibus publicis obsecundare censemus, ut patronorum nomen extinctum penitus iudicetur. Possessiones autem athuc in suo statu constitutae penes priores possessores residebunt, si pro antiquitate census functiones publicas et liturgos, quos homologi coloni praestare noscuntur, pro rata sunt...
Page 45 - Cod. 2. 4, and precarium or permissive occupancy, at any rate in the later stages of the law : ' cum quid precario rogatum est, non solum interdicto uti possumus, sed et incerti condictione, id est, praescriptis verbis