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The governor was the province's chief judge. He had the sole right to impose capital punishment, and capital cases were normally tried before him.To appeal a governor's decision necessitated travelling to Rome and presenting one's case before either the praetor urbanus, or even the Emperor himself, an expensive, and thus rare, process.
More generally, random selection of decision makers from a larger group is known as sortition (from the Latin base for lottery). The Athenian democracy made much use of sortition, with nearly all government offices filled by lottery (of full citizens) rather than by election. Candidates were almost always male, Greek, educated citizens holding ...
In traditional Latin and Greek (and other) grammars, government is the control by verbs and prepositions of the selection of grammatical features of other words. Most commonly, a verb or preposition is said to "govern" a specific grammatical case if its complement must take that case in a grammatically correct structure (see: case government). [1]
Anglo-Saxon, Arabic, Australian, Germanic, Greek, Latin, Mayan, Slavic, Latter-day Saint: Legislative Elected/ Appointed Tribal, Institutional (Latter-day Saint Movement) Emeritus: Latin: Ceremonial Retired from office Various, a retired chair, professor, or other person who retains an honorary title. Used as suffix, e.g. Professor Emeritus
Yet she will live and govern Latin America's second-largest economy from the Palacio Nacional, three blocks from Mexico's first synagogue and a neighborhood where Jewish immigrants first found ...
Civilian equivalent of a life estate. Parties: nudus dominus 'bare owner' (= remainderman, reversioner) usufructuarius 'usufructuary' (= life tenant) via executoria: executorial way Non-judicial foreclosure under a power of sale clause in a mortgage; more broadly, any non-judicial remedy empowered under a contractual clause or some other instrument
Various lists regarding the political institutions of ancient Rome are presented. [1] Each entry in a list is a link to a separate article. Categories included are: constitutions (5), laws (5), and legislatures (7); state offices (28) and office holders (6 lists); political factions (2 + 1 conflict) and social ranks (8).
Translated into Latin from Baudelaire's L'art pour l'art. Motto of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. While symmetrical for the logo of MGM, the better word order in Latin is "Ars artis gratia". ars longa, vita brevis: art is long, life is short: Seneca, De Brevitate Vitae, 1.1, translating a phrase of Hippocrates that is often used out of context. The "art ...