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  • Note 37: "Siquidem quamuis beata illa soror in silencii observacione sollicita fuerit nimis, nunquam transgrediens et infringend legem silencii in vita sua, tamen cum graciam illuminantem se minus solito se habere conspexit, strictissimum sibi ipsi silencium indixit, tanquam os ad loquendum ey aures ad audiendum non haberet; ..."

    Sensual Encounters: Monastic Women and Spirituality in Medieval Germany 2008

  • Rule 88 of Boniface VIII also expressly states Certum est quod is committit in legem qui legem verbum complectens contra legis nititur — “It is certain that one sins against the rule who adheres to the letter and leaves aside the spirit.”

    Clarification 2009

  • Fortasse factio conservativa secundum similem legem scientiae inviderunt.

    Government releases its innovation strategy - Inkless Wells - Macleans.ca 2009

  • Dicimus quod parvuli illi Iudeorum erant, octava die circumcisi secundum legem, et ita nullum peccatum habebant quia per circumcisionem remissa erant eis originalia vel, si aliqui qui circumcisi adhuc non erant tunc oblati sunt ad Dominum, et imposito complexu et contractu dominico mundati sunt. back

    A Tender Age: Cultural Anxieties over the Child in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries 2005

  • Amasis Aegypti rex legem promulgavit, ut omnes subditi quotannis rationem redderent unde viverent.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Now much older, having studied law, I have wild dreams of making love while exchanging phrases such as “consensus facit legem” et “contraceptiva duces tecum?”

    The Volokh Conspiracy » Is Latin a Dead Language? 2007

  • I find this reason given by some men, because they have been formerly naught themselves, they think they may be so served by others, they turned up trump before the cards were shuffled; they shall have therefore legem talionis, like for like.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Persarum legem as [663] Brisonius calls it; or as [664] Ammianus, impendio formidatas et abominandas leges, per quas ob noxam unius, omnis propinquitas perit hard law that wife and children, friends and allies, should suffer for the father's offence.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • “Quumque Hierosolymam accessisset, et ibidem aliquandiu mansisset, pontificis filiam ducere in animum induxisse, et eam ob rem proselytum factum, atque circumcisum esse; postea quod virginem eam non accepisset, succensuisse, et adversus circumcisionem, ac sabbathum totamque legem scripsisse.”

    A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

  • His first ad nauseam excuse for warrantless searches is that contra legem searches aren't unprecedented.

    Bushian apologetics 2006

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