provocatio

They perhaps established provocatio, the right of appeal of magisterial decisions, and affirmed the inviolability of the tribunes and also the aediles.

e. The Early Republic 2001

Opimius had been impeached after his year of office, but acquitted, which the senate might claim as a confirmation of the right, in spite of the _lex_ of Gaius Gracchus, which confirmed the right of _provocatio_ in all cases.

The Letters of Cicero, Volume 1 The Whole Extant Correspodence in Chronological Order Marcus Tullius Cicero

Not only was this a contradiction in terms, since the dictatorship was by tradition a makeshift justified only when the state had to be carried through a serious crisis, but it involved military rule in Italy and the permanent suspension of the constitutional guarantees, such as _intercessio_ and _provocatio_, by which the liberties of Romans were protected.

Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary" Various

Others deny that an extrajudicial appeal, as such, has a suspensive effect, because it is not an appeal properly so called, but they hold that it has this effect as a provocatio ad causam (a legal application for a cause or suit).

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize 1840-1916 1913

The _provocatio_ had always been the challenge to the decision of a magistrate; but in these standing courts the actions of the president and of the _judices_ who sat with him were practically indistinguishable, and the sentence pronounced was in no sense a magisterial decision.

A History of Rome During the Later Republic and Early Principate 1885

The fact that the _provocatio_ was contemplated as a substitute for citizenship is at once a proof that the old spirit of state life, which viewed absorption as extermination, was known still to be strong in some of the Italian communes, and that many of the individual Italians were believed to value the citizenship mainly as a means of protecting their persons against Roman officialdom.

A History of Rome During the Later Republic and Early Principate 1885

Deep-rooted prejudices entertained by the whites; ten thousand recollection s, by the blacks, of the injuries they have sustained; new provocatio ns; the real distinctions which nature has made; and many other circumstances, will divide us into parties, and produce convulsions, which will probably never end but in the extermination of the one or the other race.

Notes on the State of Virginia 1853

He shot at a neighbor's trailer and then shot a police officer without any provocatio

The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com The Huffington Post News Editors 2011

Even though they'd quickly commence action against your account at the slightest provocatio

The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com The Huffington Post News Editors 2011

Appellationem, vcl provocatio - nem ad aliud judicium.

Suidae Lexicon, Græce & Latine 1705