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  • This itself raises an interpretive problem: why treat counterpositing as a separate kind of obligatio at all?

    Medieval Theories of Obligationes Spade, Paul Vincent 2008

  • Ben Smith, however, correctly notes that in this respect she was stating the obligatio ...

    Rick Hasen: Did ABC News Bury the Lede? 2008

  • Skills at arguing according to the rules of obligatio?

    Medieval Theories of Obligationes Spade, Paul Vincent 2008

  • A few words should be said about other kinds of obligatio.

    Medieval Theories of Obligationes Spade, Paul Vincent 2008

  • The influential view of William Heytesbury was that insolubles should be resolved in the context of an obligatio, a specialized form of disputation, and Heytesbury proposes rules for solving insolubilia as well as sophismata in this way (Spade, 1982, 252).

    Literary Forms of Medieval Philosophy Sweeney, Eileen 2008

  • Ben Smith, however, correctly notes that in this respect she was stating the obligatio ...

    Rick Hasen: Did ABC News Bury the Lede? 2008

  • Of these three types of literature which become more significant in the 13th and 14th centuries, obligatio is the only one that unambiguously refers to a form of argument.

    Literary Forms of Medieval Philosophy Sweeney, Eileen 2008

  • And the distinction of “dignitas pœnæ,” and “obligatio ad pœnam” is but the same thing in diverse words; for both do but express the relation of sin unto the sanction of the law: or if they may be conceived to differ, yet are they inseparable; for there can be no “obligatio ad pœnam” where there is not “dignitas pœnæ.”

    The Doctrine of Justification by Faith 1616-1683 1965

  • This general obligation of a priest to celebrate Mass must not be confounded with the special obligation which results from the acceptance of a Mass-stipend (obligatio ex stipendio) or from the cure of souls (obligatio ex cura animarum).

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman 1840-1916 1913

  • Constitutions, p. VI, c. 5, obligationem ad peccatum, and made it appear that they require obedience even to the commission of sin, as if the text were obligatio ad peccandum, where the obvious meaning and purpose of the text is precisely to show that the transgression of the rules is not in itself sinful.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon 1840-1916 1913

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