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  • Although there is some evidence that the mala captus rule may be eroding at the national level, state practice in this regard is not yet so widespread as to confer upon the forum state an obligation to decline jurisdiction merely because the foreign state protests.

    Rend It, It’s Yours | ATTACKERMAN 2009

  • Hac configuratione natus, Aut Lunaticus, aut mente captus.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Besides they are freed in this from many other infirmities, solitariness makes them more apt to contemplate, suspicion wary, which is a necessary humour in these times, [4074] Nam pol que maxime cavet, is saepe cautor captus est, he that takes most heed, is often circumvented, and overtaken.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • He that respects not this in choosing of his seat, or building his house, is mente captus, mad, [3178] Cato saith, and his dwelling next to hell itself, according to

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Cum mundus extra se sit, et mente captus sit, et nesciat se languere, ut medelam adhibeat.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • [3331] The like pleasure there is in all other studies, to such as are truly addicted to them, [3332] ea suavitas (one holds) ut cum quis ea degustaverit, quasi poculis Circeis captus, non possit unquam ab illis divelli; the like sweetness, which as

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • [3315] Continuo eo spectaculo captus delenito maerore

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Thessalonicae amore captus pronotarii, filiae, &c. 5598.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Phaerus Aegipti rex captus oculis per decennium, oraculum consuluit de uxoris pudicitia.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Tandem et ipse � viro quodam magni nominis, quem prius vt fertur, lacessiuerat, captus, ac Schalholtiam adductus, ibidem cum filijs duobus, authoritate regij pr鎓ecti, capitis

    The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

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