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  • _Jurisprudentia est divinarum atque humanarum rerum notitia, justi atque injusti scientia_ (_Ulpian_).

    System der volkswirthschaft. English Wilhelm Roscher 1855

  • Tales semper nobis insecutores, injusti, impii, turpes, quos, et ipsi damnare consuestis -- Our persecutors are invariably unjust, impious, infamous, whom you yourselves have been accustomed to condemn.

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

  • Nor can such a right be acquired by means of any unjust act of another (facto injusti alterius), as being itself contrary to right; for if such a wrong as it implies were perpetrated on me, and I could demand satisfaction from the other, in accordance with right, yet in such a case I would only be entitled to maintain undiminished what was mine, and not to acquire anything more than what I formerly had.

    The Science of Right 1790

  • [Footnote: Non illic urbes, non tu mirabere silvas: Una est injusti caerula forma maris.

    The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides with Samuel Johnson, LL.D. James Boswell 1767

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