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This legal Sword of Damocles seems not unlike the category of medieval jurisprudence called vacatio iuris: the sovereign certainly has the right to kill his subject, but chooses (out of mercy, whim, or whatever) not to — at least not at the moment.

'L'affaire Derrida' Derrida, Jacques 1993

When Iraq's parliament goes on a two-month vacatio...

05/18/2007 2007

English one rest, there can be little doubt that the original word was vacatio, as the sense of the passage seems to require.

Commentary on Genesis - Volume 1 1509-1564 1996

After my trip to the Netherlands it's back to Shanghai but my next vacatio is already in the works as I'm planning a vacation to the US and Canada for June.

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That was a great display of initiative .... and a wonderful way for them to see first-hand how local government works .... all in the middle of summer vacatio, n!

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That was a great display of initiative .... and a wonderful way for them to see first-hand how local government works .... all in the middle of summer vacatio, n!

unknown title 2009

That was a great display of initiative .... and a wonderful way for them to see first-hand how local government works .... all in the middle of summer vacatio, n!

unknown title 2009

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Adm. rev. p. F. Lucii Ferraris ... Prompta Bibliotheca canonica, juridica, moralis, theologica ... 1782

CoIIigitur quinto: Nominatum per preces Cacfareas ad Beneficium, debere intra menfem numerandum a tempore, quo ipfi talis Bene - ficii vacatio innotuit, per fe; vci pcr procura» tth

Adm. rev. p. F. Lucii Ferraris ... Prompta Bibliotheca canonica, juridica, moralis, theologica ... 1782

CoJIigitur quinto: Nominatum per preces to Cxfareas ad Beneficium ', debere intra menfem nuinerandum a tempore, quo ipfi talis Bene - ficii vacatio innotuit, per fe 1 vel pcr procura. to -

Adm. rev. p. F. Lucii Ferraris ... Prompta Bibliotheca canonica, juridica, moralis, theologica ... 1782