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- adjective Of or pertaining to Publius Falcidius, a
Roman tribune .
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Examples
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Therefore it is unreasonable to divide laws according to the names of lawgivers, so that one be called the Cornelian law, another the Falcidian law, etc.
The Political Ideas of St. Thomas Aquinas Dino Bigongiari 1997
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But as the imprudence or prodigality of a dying man might exhaust the inheritance and leave only risk and labor to his successor, he was empowered to retain the Falcidian portion; to deduct, before the payment of the legacies, a clear fourth for his own emolument.
The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 04 Rossiter Johnson 1885
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By the Falcidian law, in the time of Augustus, no one could leave in legacies more than three fourths of his estate, so that the heirs could inherit at least one fourth.
The Old Roman World, : the Grandeur and Failure of Its Civilization. John Lord 1852
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Falcidian portion; to deduct, before the payment of the legacies, a clear fourth for his own emolument.
History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 4 Edward Gibbon 1765
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_Falcidian_ portion; to deduct, before the payment of the legacies, a clear fourth for his own emolument.
History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 4 Edward Gibbon 1765
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But as the imprudence or prodigality of a dying man might exhaust the inheritance, and leave only risk and labor to his successor, he was empowered to retain the Falcidian portion; to deduct, before the payment of the legacies, a clear fourth for his own emolument.
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 1206
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