On the Laws, also known by its Latin name De Legibus (abbr. De Leg.), is a Socratic dialogue written by Marcus Tullius Cicero during the last years of...
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Writings of Cicero (section De legibus)
liberally from his works, e.g. "On the Commonwealth" (De Re Publica) and "On Laws" (De Legibus), as well as Cicero's (partial) Latin translation of Plato's...
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cleric and jurist. He is famous now for his writings on law, particularly De legibus et consuetudinibus Angliæ ("On the Laws and Customs of England") and his...
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reign of King Henry II (1154–89) and was the probable author of Tractatus de legibus et consuetudinibus regni Anglie (The Treatise on the Laws and Customs...
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shall be the supreme law") is a maxim or principle found in Cicero's De Legibus (book III, part III, sub. VIII). John Locke uses it as the epigraph in...
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Laws Decemviri (also Decemviri Legibus Scribundis Consulari Imperio) Phrases Legibus solutus (sometimes princeps legibus solutus est); see above the law...
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Cicero. London: Edmund Spettigue. Cicero, De Legibus (Keyes translation), bk. 2, sec. 11. Cicero, De Legibus (Keyes translation), bk. 1, sec. 58. "Full...
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John Spencer (priest) (section De Legibus Hebraeorum)
erudite theologian and Hebraist, he is best remembered as the author of De Legibus Hebraeorum, a pioneer work of comparative religion, in which he advanced...
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Bishop of Peterborough from 1691. In 1672, he published his major work, De legibus naturae (On natural laws), propounding utilitarianism and opposing the...
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on Cicero, De Legibus (University of Michigan Press, 2004), pp. 381–382, note on an issue raised at De legibus 2.48a. Cicero, De legibus 2.1.9-21; Turcan...
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