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(The word jury is derived from the Latin word jurare, which means to swear.)
Civil Government of Virginia William Fayette Fox 1872
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[5180] Nil metuunt jurare, nihil promittere curant:
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Nullius addictus jurare in verba magistri and consequently had at all times the invaluable privilege of abusing what was being done, whether by one side or by the other.
The Way We Live Now 2004
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I may not always think on various points exactly as he does, but I am not more forward than he is to say with Horace, — “Nullius addictus jurare in verba magistri.”
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Et jurare fecit me dominus meus, dicendo, Non capies uxorem filio meo de filiabus Chenaanaei, in cujus terra ego habito:
Commentary on Genesis - Volume 2 1509-1564 1996
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Now to call God to witness is named _jurare_ (to swear) because it is established as though it were a principle of law (_jure_) that what a man asserts under the invocation of God as His witness should be accepted as true.
Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province Aquinas Thomas
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We profess to be perfectly independent of all control in our thoughts and actions: '_Nullius addicti jurare in verba magistri_.'
The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, February 1844 Volume 23, Number 2 Various
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"Nullius addictus jurare in verba magistri," he was an eclectic in politics, -- acknowledged no leader, had himself no followers.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 71, September, 1863 Various
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Mindanis ordinaverat, ac jurare coegerat se Mindanis mansurum.
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[1759] Proindeque per nomen illud gloriosum ac tremendum jurare leviter, aut temere, vel etiam omnino jurare per rem aliam quamviscunque, sceleratum est et quam maxime perhorrescendum.
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