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  • This is in clear violation of the ancient Roman legal principle of Actio Pauliana, which specifically forbade any transfer of property in the case of an imminent bankruptcy, when that transfer put a creditors' property beyond his reach.

    Where Buenos Aires Hides its Cash Frits Bolkestein 2011

  • Elizabeth Lambert “still deeply regrets” Her Actio...

    Archive 2009-11-01 Matt Johnston 2009

  • Actio and passio are the same thing with two aspects or phases.

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

  • [101] According to the scholastic expression: Actio immanens, actio transiens.

    The Following of Christ. c. 1300-1361 1910

  • '_Actio personalis moritur cum personâ_,' I replied; 'if my executors brought an action, they would find themselves non-suited.'

    The Talking Horse And Other Tales F. Anstey 1895

  • He published a short and dignified reply, _Actio prima in Calumniatorem_, in which, from title-page to colophon, Scaliger's name never once occurs.

    Jerome Cardan A Biographical Study 1886

  • Besides, who does not know that Cardan, in his _Actio prima in Calumniatorem_, blunted the point of all his assailant's weapons, swept away all his objections, and broke in pieces all his accusations, in such wise that the very reason of their existence ceased to be?

    Jerome Cardan A Biographical Study 1886

  • This interpretation would be less plausible than it is, were it not that, by a surprising coincidence, the ceremony described by Gaius as the imperative course of proceeding in a Legis Actio is substantially the same with one of the two subjects which the God Hephæstus is described by Homer as moulding into the First Compartment of the Shield of

    Ancient Law Its Connection to the History of Early Society Henry Sumner Maine 1855

  • It is natural therefore that in the Legis Actio the remuneration of the

    Ancient Law Its Connection to the History of Early Society Henry Sumner Maine 1855

  • The passage from Dionysius is quoted in Actio 3 of the Council, and occurs de

    Catena Aurea - Gospel of Mark 1225?-1274 1842

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