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  • of law in the world, with its origins in Roman law, and sets out a comprehensive ... system in that Scots law has a basis in Roman law, combining features of ...
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  • where legal science got formulated according to Roman Law) ... legal science got formulated according to Roman Law, whereas common law countries ...
    12 KB (1,733 words) - 08:07, 14 January 2023
  • including Brandenburg within the Holy Roman Empire and Ducal Prussia ... Leopold I, archduke of Austria and Holy Roman emperor, was convinced by ...
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  • for crowning Charlemagne as the first Holy Roman Emperor and for promoting ... the Pope. This was also supported by much Roman Law, which was also generally ...
    12 KB (1,984 words) - 20:06, 25 October 2022
  • and German parliaments. His works on Roman law and on the law of obligations ... in 1837, graduating as a doctor of Roman law. As he could not afford ...
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  • Category:Law Category:Lifestyle Category:Marriage and family ... that point, marriage was by consent under Roman Law, and by consummation under ...
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  • to relativize the identity of the Roman Catholic Church with the ... The encyclical was an important development in Roman Catholic doctrine ...
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  • of Christianity and the fall of the Western Roman Empire (fifth century C.E ... culture was a powerful influence in the Roman Empire, which carried a version ...
    12 KB (1,804 words) - 10:51, 19 December 2023
  • Gentile and Jewish-Christians in the Roman church, and he addressed ... he reveals that he wishes to impart to the Roman readers a gift of encouragement ...
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  • the Anglo-American system of constitutional law. From 1584 until his death ... (middle way) between the positions of the Roman Catholics and the Puritans ...
    12 KB (1,851 words) - 21:41, 8 December 2022
  • Israelite kings with reference to the Mosaic law and the oversight of the prophets ... removed the counterbalancing power of the Roman church and returned the royal ...
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  • the later, on topics such as virtue, good, law, morality, strength, and marriage ... Socrates taught that it was a moral obligation to obey civil law. ...
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  • the development of the theory of natural law and distinguished between ... dogmatic religious teaching for the study of public law. ...
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  • 24 and May 15, 1648 and involved the Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand III, the ... their state's religion—thus, in law, Protestantism and Catholicism ...
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  • who became known in his capacity as a Roman citizen as Flavius Josephus, ... While some accuse him of being a pro-Roman propagandist, even a traitor ...
    15 KB (2,256 words) - 20:56, 31 July 2022
  • Catholic moral theology is a major category of doctrine in the Roman ... while early Christians were subjects of the Roman Empire. From the time Nero ...
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  • Category:Law may be voided without breaking religious law. Situations in which annulments ...
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  • separate from both the Eastern Orthodox and Roman Catholic churches. ... means "self-legislated," or a law unto itself. Nomos is the ...
    9 KB (1,277 words) - 19:40, 22 August 2023
  • humorous portraits of members of the Roman populace. Martial wrote a ... His name seems to imply that he was born a Roman citizen, but he speaks ...
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  • 244), known in English as Gordian III, was Roman Emperor from 238 to 244. ... Europe that emerged from the ruins of the Roman empire cherished common values ...
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