a short history of roman law

... the application of sacral law such as the regulation of the calendar, but at the same time they supervised secular law. Furthermore, archaic law like the law of nearly all primitive peoples—was of a ... legal acts such as the emancipation the making of a mancipatory will and property transfer by mancipatio of res mancipi (land in Italy, slaves and cattle); these acts we...

... was avoided in the name of regulatory forbearance. Repealing Glass-Steagall The Glass-Steagall Act of 1933 had established a firm separation between commerce and banking in the financial ... insurance giant AIG. The Federal Reserve also played a role in guaranteeing hundreds of billions of dollars worth of assets at Citigroup and Bank of America. Additionally, the...

... was nearer to very ambitious Norman barons. He was great as a warrior; often had his white steed been seen leading the rush of battle. He was greater as a statesman: friend and foe said that ... of gold as long as the king himself, and as thick as his little finger; and a plate of gold, as broad as the king's face, and as thick as a ploughman's nail. The judge, w...

... had both advantages and disadvantages. The peak period for banknote use is at the end of the year: circulation is around 10% higher than average because of the Christmas season and the first ... agreed that the name should be the same in all official languages of the European Union (EU), taking account of different alphabets, and easy to pronounce. Above all, it had to be simple a...

... communication than to- day, and many streams now silted up and shallow were navigable according to Domesday. Water carriage was, as always, much cheaper than land carriage, and corn could be carried ... supplementary to those of the bailiff: he looked after all the live and dead stock of the manor, saw to the manuring of the land, kept a tally of the day's work, had charge...