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  • Allan Lord Ravenswood, and was proceeding to detail the executorial proceedings by which this large sum had been rendered a debitum fundi, when he was interrupted by the Master.

    The Bride of Lammermoor 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

  • Uxor cujusdam nobilis quum debitum maritale sacro passionis hebdomada non obtineret, alterum adiit.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Lemnius subscribes to that of Cardan, and assigns this reason, Quod persolvant debitum languide, et obscitanter, unde foetus a parentum generositate desciscit: they pay their debt (as Paul calls it) to their wives remissly, by which means their children are weaklings, and many times idiots and fools.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Duty is suffixed from due, which in turn is the English derivative from Latin's debitum, owed.

    A non-debt theory of duty Adam Roberts Project 2007

  • Et nos non paucos sanavimus, animi motibus ad debitum revocatis, lib.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Duty is suffixed from due, which in turn is the English derivative from Latin's debitum, owed.

    Archive 2007-03-01 Adam Roberts Project 2007

  • Husbands and wives did this "ut ostendant sese mutuo debere corrigere, ne illo tempore alter ab altero thori debitum exigat" (Beleth, I, c. cxx; Durandus, I, c. vi, 86).

    04/01/2004 - 05/01/2004 John 2004

  • Itaque peregrinus qui debitum tenuit iter, veniat à finibus deserti in primam ciuitatem Iudeæ, quæ dicitur Berseba: est vicus grandis Hebron inde miliario vergens ad

    The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville 2004

  • Et quaedam ex istis naturaliter loquuntur verba aut prouerbia, seu salutationes, in patriæ idiomate, vt euidenter salutes, concedant, et reddant viatoribus, et nonnunquam debitum iter errantibus per desertum ostendant.

    The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville 2004

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