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  • Ius primae noctis: a legal or customary right to sexual relations with the newly-married wives of their underlings.

    March 25th, 2009 m_francis 2009

  • Ius is the action that I must perform in order to satisfy the debt in accordance with equality.

    Archive 2008-05-18 papabear 2008

  • Ius is not the same thing as what is owed, debitum, though it does include what is owed within its definition.

    Archive 2008-05-18 papabear 2008

  • Citizenship: Ius soli or ius sanguinis ius soli wiki

    Archive 2008-02-17 papabear 2008

  • See the simultaneously published work by B. Diestelkamp, "Der Vorwurf des Ritualmordes gegen Juden vor dem Hofgericht Kaiser Friedrichs II. im Jahr 1236," in Religiöse Devianz, Ius commune 48 (1990): 19 — 39; and Langmuir, "Ritual Cannibalism," in Definition, 263 — 81. back

    A Tender Age: Cultural Anxieties over the Child in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries 2005

  • P. J. Van den Hout, “Bellum Iustum, Ius Divinum: Some Thoughts About War and Peace in Hittite Anatolia,” in Grotiana, New Series 12–13 1991–92 1994: 13–35.

    The Trojan War Barry Strauss 2006

  • P. J. Van den Hout, “Bellum Iustum, Ius Divinum: Some Thoughts About War and Peace in Hittite Anatolia,” in Grotiana, New Series 12–13 1991–92 1994: 13–35.

    The Trojan War Barry Strauss 2006

  • Ghibli was, of course, employed as a geological surveyor, which first brought her to this sector of Greater Vallis Marinaris, introduced her to the rugged loneliness of the Ius Chasma area, and deeply informed her view of the rock formations and history of the landscape.

    Asimov's Science Fiction 2004

  • Saturated with the loneliness, the wild, the harshness of Ius and its canyons.

    Asimov's Science Fiction 2004

  • Down Ius just a little ways, to where I knew there was a nice wind-carved hole in the cliff to sleep in.

    Asimov's Science Fiction 2004

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