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[Footnote 394: 'Quia caduca bona fisco nostro competere legum cauta decreverunt.'] 'Enquire into this matter; and if it be as we are informed, reclaim for our Treasury so legitimate a possession.
The Letters of Cassiodorus Being A Condensed Translation Of The Variae Epistolae Of Magnus Aurelius Cassiodorus Senator Senator Cassiodorus 1872
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Boemundus suo juri competere clamitabat: inops haereditatis Apuliae, quam genitor Rogerio, minori filio delegaverat.
History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 5 Edward Gibbon 1765
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_Consilium juridicum super iis, quæ Nassavii in Juliacum & Geldriam competere sibi dicunt.
The Life of the Truly Eminent and Learned Hugo Grotius Containing a Copious and Circumstantial History of the Several Important and Honourable Negotiations in Which He Was Employed; together with a Critical Account of His Works Jean L��vesque de Burigny 1738
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[…] Fuda ha scritto un articolo molto votato su digg che noi occidentali dobbiamo tornare ad investire in formazione e ricerca per aumentare la qualità del nostro lavoro, insomma, Fuda ritiene che dobbiamo competere e vincere la guerra economica con gli asiatici sul terreno della creatività.
Fruda Julek 2008
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Boemundus suo juri competere clamitabat: inops haereditatis
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 1206
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Id autem ultimum, ait SUbtilis Doctor, unice competere potest amo - li concupiscentiae.
Tractatus theologicus de charitate, in quo expenditur systema J.V. Bolgenj de amore Dei. Accedit ... Joseph Chantre Herrera, Giovanni Vincenzo Bolgeni 1792
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In TOcabalo Iiatona& filio competere nequit, qui ti* CI4ANIX1N. adhaeret, ac jure quidem. bicen nunquam, citbaroedus semper fnit, Nam A el N oonjonctom, qui literarum et citharoedus in hoe ipso numo pro - nexus etiam in AN Tocabuli CFAOTA - ponitur.
Doctrina nvmorvm vetervm conscripta a Josepho Eckhel .. Hohler, Emerich Thomas, 1781-1846. [from old catalog] 1792
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Ea quac rationi & aequitati competere potuerintj falva erunt.
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For _nemo potest plus juris transferre in alium quam sibi competere dignoscatur_, (1128) the king may sometimes inflict such a civil punishment upon ministers, whereupon, secondarily and accidentally, will follow their falling away from their ecclesiastical office and function (in which sense it is said that Solomon deposed Abiathar, as we heard before), but to depose them directly and formally (which the High Commission usurped to do) he hath no power, and that because this deposition is an act of ecclesiastical jurisdiction; whereas the power of ecclesiastical jurisdiction doth no more agree to the king than the power of ecclesiastical order: his power is civil and temporal, not spiritual and ecclesiastical.
The Works of Mr. George Gillespie (Vol. 1 of 2) George Gillespie 1630
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332 UbiDonatiftaerefpondent, recitationem de Cae - ciliano Catholico non potuifle competere.
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