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  • Vindication, according to Thomas Aquinas the translation of vindicatio as 'vengeance' is not particularly good, but it does a little better than 'vindication' at indicating the forcefulness the Latin word conveys, is an important virtue associated with justice.

    Vindication 2005

  • Vindication, according to Thomas Aquinas the translation of vindicatio as 'vengeance' is not particularly good, but it does a little better than 'vindication' at indicating the forcefulness the Latin word conveys, is an important virtue associated with justice.

    Archive 2005-10-01 2005

  • Rei vindicatio and the Publician action went to the question of ownership.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy 1840-1916 1913

  • The vindicatory action (rei vindicatio) went to the direct question of ownership, and ownership was required to be conclusively proved.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy 1840-1916 1913

  • But he is entirely right in adopting the exclusion of the _rei vindicatio_ against the honest possessor as necessary to the completion of the idea of money.

    System der volkswirthschaft. English Wilhelm Roscher 1855

  • The action of real revindication (vindicatio); and IV.

    The Science of Right 1790

  • _mancipium_, while after each sale the fictitious vendee enfranchized the son, by _manumissio vindicta_, _i. e._ by laying his rod (_vindicta_) on the slave and claiming him as free (_vindicatio in libertatem_).

    Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon" Various

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