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  • Principles such as aequitas, aequum et bonum, and bona fides became prominent in Roman jurisprudence (Allen, pp. 377, 381).

    EQUITY IN LAW AND ETHICS MILTON R. KONVITZ 1968

  • The praetor, Roman chief magistrate, readily developed aequitas as the jus honorarium.

    EQUITY IN LAW AND ETHICS MILTON R. KONVITZ 1968

  • Martinus Gosia and Bulgarus were the chiefs of two opposite schools at Bologna, corresponding in many respects to the Proculians and Sabinians of Imperial Rome, Martinus being at the head of a school which accommodated the law to what his opponents styled the equity of "the purse" (_aequitas bursalis_), whilst Bulgarus adhered more closely to the letter of the law.

    Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary" Various

  • Morality had always been for them a matter of family custom, parental teaching of the rules of decorum, legal doctrine regarding the universality of aequitas, and, more than they knew, of puritanic instincts inherited from a well-sifted stock.

    Vergil Frank, Tenney, 1876-1939 1922

  • Nec potest conscientiis consuli, nisi haec aequitas servetur: [11325] 1

    The Creeds of the Evangelical Protestant Churches. 1889

  • Iisdem etiam tanquam corpori politico leges multas dedit judiciales, quae una cum istius populi politeia expirarunt, nullos hodie alios obligantes supra quod generalis et communis earum aequitas postularit.

    The Creeds of the Evangelical Protestant Churches. 1889

  • Quanquam enim conentur epiikeizare [zu lindern und epiiciren] traditiones, tamen nunquam potest aequitas deprehendi [so kann man doch kein epieikeian oder Linderung treffen], donec manet opinio necessitatis, quam manere necesse est, ubi ignorantur justitia fidei et libertas Christiana. which all arose from the false persuasion, that there should be a service in the Church, like to the

    The Creeds of the Evangelical Protestant Churches. 1889

  • Iisdem etiam tanquam corpori politico leges multas dedit judiciales, quae una cum istius populi politeia expirarunt, nullos hodie alios obligantes supra quod generalis et communis earum aequitas postularit.

    The Creeds of the Evangelical Protestant Churches. 1889

  • Nec potest conscientiis consuli, nisi haec aequitas servetur [wo diese Linderung nicht gehalten wird], ut sciamus eos sine opinione necessitatis servari, nec laedi conscientias, etiamsi traditiones exolescant.

    The Creeds of the Evangelical Protestant Churches. 1889

  • Roman towards his dead: thus Cicero in _Topica 90_ writes of _aequitas_ as consisting of three parts, -- _pietas_, _sanctitas_, and _iustitia_, -- meaning man's relation to the gods, the Manes, and his fellow-men.

    The Religious Experience of the Roman People From the Earliest Times to the Age of Augustus W. Warde Fowler 1884

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