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  • In my research, I focused on cases where the Court actually considered incorporation, but I did not find cases where Scalia may have mentioned it indicta.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » How Many Votes To Overrule The Slaughterhouse Cases? 2009

  • They (saith [6801] Origen) that never heard God's word, are to be excused for their ignorance; we may not think God will be so hard, angry, cruel or unjust as to condemn any man indicta causa.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Vnde nouerint vniuersi quod nobis existentibus in terra eorum in solenni curia, qu� iam ex pluribus annis indicta erat, fuimus, vbi elegerunt Cuynch imperatorem in presentia nostra, qui in lingua eorum dicitur Chan.

    The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

  • Colchida nec referam uendentem regna parentis et lacerum fratrem stupro segetesque uirorum10 taurorumque trucis flammas uigilemque draconem et reducis annos auroque incendia facta et male conceptos partus peiusque necatos; septenosque duces ereptaque fulmine flammis moenia Thebarum et uictam, quia uicerat, urbem15 germanosque patris referam matrisque nepotis natorumque epulas conuersaque sidera retro ereptumque diem; nec Persica bella profundo indicta et magna pontum sub classe latentem inuersumque fretum terris, iter aequoris undis.

    A New Poetry 1912

  • Cum acerbae famis tempore grauis atque inexplicabilis indicta coemptio profligatura inopia Campaniam prouinciam uideretur, certamen aduersum praefectum praetorii communis commodi ratione suscepi, rege cognoscente contendi et ne coemptio exigeretur, euici.

    The Theological Tractates and The Consolation of Philosophy Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius 1908

  • In the mean while, the doctrine concerning faith, and the et justitia fidei, quia subinde plures feriae factae sunt, jejunia indicta, ceremoniae novae, novi honores sanctorum instituti sunt, quia arbitrabantur se autores talium rerum his operibus mereri gratiam.

    The Creeds of the Evangelical Protestant Churches. 1889

  • It may be that they had tried it even in earlier times; but anyhow, in the fourth and third centuries B.C. advantage was taken of the _pulvinaria_ to use them as stopping-places in the procession of a _supplicatio_, and the phrase becomes a common one in the annals, "supplicatio ad omnia pulvinaria indicta."

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

  • If he set an imposition, the imposition must be done, and must be done at a certain time, without appeal, and _causa indicta_.

    St. Winifred's, or The World of School 1867

  • Valerius Publicola made it a Roman law, Ne quis indicta causa condemnetur -- No man should be condemned unheard.

    Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume V (Matthew to John) 1721

  • The Romans had a law (it was called lex Sempronia), that if any magistrate did chastise or condemn a freeman of Rome, indicta causa -- without hearing him speak for himself, and deliberating upon the whole of his case, he should be liable to the sentence of the people, who were very jealous of their liberties.

    Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation) 1721

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