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The landlords and the booksellers were kept in proper submission by threats of _interdictio_ or _privatio_.
Life in the Medieval University Robert S. Rait
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Sulla, exile (_interdictio aquae et ignis_) was fixed upon as the extreme penalty; and that according to the usual indulgence (not sanctioned by any law), accused persons, if they denied being guilty, and were defended by some one, remained in the enjoyment of their freedom until the sentence was passed.
C. Sallusti Crispi De Bello Catilinario Et Jugurthino 86 BC-34? BC Sallust
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We must here repeat that Caesar makes an artful application of the circumstance that, in all the late criminal laws, the _interdictio aquae et ignis_ was fixed as the severest punishment, as if thereby a person had been simply permitted to withdraw from the republic.
C. Sallusti Crispi De Bello Catilinario Et Jugurthino 86 BC-34? BC Sallust
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These statements are reconcilable when we consider that deportation under the emperors took the place of interdictio, and the expression in the "Digest" was suited to the times of the writers or the compilers.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss 1840-1916 1913
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Conseil; the magistrates replied by imposing on him an enormous fine, and the heavy penalty of "aquæ et ignis interdictio".
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss 1840-1916 1913
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The punishment inflicted by the law was the interdictio aquae et ignis (prohibition of the use of water and fire), according to some modern writers.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss 1840-1916 1913
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Banishment was common -- _aquae et ignis interdictio_ -- and this was equivalent to the deprivation of the necessities of life, and incapacitating a person from exercising the rights of citizenship.
The Old Roman World, : the Grandeur and Failure of Its Civilization. John Lord 1852
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_interdictio_ having been illegal, the senate could quash it.
The Letters of Cicero, Volume 1 The Whole Extant Correspodence in Chronological Order Marcus Tullius Cicero
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a peculiar _interdictio ignis et aquae_; the other -- by an _interdictio scientiae_.
History of the Jews in Russia and Poland. Volume II From the death of Alexander I. until the death of Alexander III. (1825-1894) I. [Translator] Friedlaender 1900
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