At that time the need for labor on the estates of wealthy Romans would have been met by citizens who had fallen into debt-bondage, nexum, which is also mentioned in the Twelve Tables. ❋ Unknown (2001)
The San Francisco Art Institute Lecture Hall, up a steep, tree-lined and particularly Hitchcockian street in North Beach, has become a sound-art nexus in a city with more than its fair share of sound-art nexuses nexi? nexes? nexum? ❋ Unknown (2005)
When a person shall make bond (_nexum_) and conveyance ❋ Anonymous (N/A)
For a loyal person and for a person restored to allegiance there shall be the same right (_ius_) of bond (_nexum_) and of conveyance ❋ Anonymous (N/A)
Siue igitur famulantibus quibusdam prouidentiae diuinis spiritibus fatum exercetur seu anima seu tota inseruiente natura seu caelestibus siderum motibus seu angelica uirtute seu daemonum uaria sollertia seu aliquibus horum seu omnibus fatalis series texitur, illud certe manifestum est immobilem simplicemque gerendarum formam rerum esse prouidentiam, fatum uero eorum quae diuina simplicitas gerenda disposuit mobilem nexum atque ordinem temporalem. ❋ Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius (1908)
Poetelia_ of 326 B.C., which abolished the contract of _nexum_. ❋ Unknown (1885)
He could not be a party to the _nexum_ which was at once the conveyance and the contract of the primitive Romans. ❋ Henry Sumner Maine (1855)
In _that_ case, the _nexum_ is finished, so far as the seller is concerned, and when he has once handed over his property, he is no longer _nexus_; but, in regard to the purchaser, the _nexum_ continues. ❋ Henry Sumner Maine (1855)
When once we understand that the _nexum_ was artificially prolonged to give time to the debtor, we can better comprehend his position in the eye of the public and of the law. ❋ Henry Sumner Maine (1855)
It is unfortunate that we cannot track the early history of Contracts with the same absolute confidence as the early history of Wills, but we are not quite without hints that contracts first showed themselves through the _nexum_ being put to a new use and afterwards obtained recognition as distinct transactions through the important practical consequences of the experiment. ❋ Henry Sumner Maine (1855)
A definition which has descended to us from one of the Latin antiquarians describes _nexum_ as _omne quod geritur per æs et libram_, "every transaction with the copper and the balance," and these words have occasioned a good deal of perplexity. ❋ Henry Sumner Maine (1855)
Nexum, therefore, which originally signified a Conveyance of property, came insensibly to denote a Contract also, and ultimately so constant became the association between this word and the notion of a Contract, that a special term, Mancipium or Mancipatio, had to be used for the purpose of designating the true nexum or transaction in which the property was really transferred. ❋ Henry Sumner Maine (1855)
The chief characteristic of the ancient law in this matter was the eventual sale of the person of the debtor on the getting of the loan (_nexum_); the power of the creditor to put the _addictus_ to death or to sell him in foreign parts; finally, the _in partes secanto_, in the concourse of creditors. ❋ Wilhelm Roscher (1855)
So long as the business lasted it was a _nexum_, and the parties were _nexi_; but the moment it was completed, the _nexum_ ended, and the vendor and purchaser ceased to bear the name derived from their momentary relation. ❋ Henry Sumner Maine (1855)
It was _nexum_, and the parties to the contract were said to be _nexi_, expressions which must be carefully attended to on account of the singular durableness of the metaphor on which they are founded. ❋ Henry Sumner Maine (1855)
There seems to have been one solemn ceremonial at first for all solemn transactions, and its name at Rome appears to have been _nexum_. ❋ Henry Sumner Maine (1855)
I want to change the BG color of the page surrounding the forum itself, isn't that located in the stylesheet. css? or os it in one of the templates? nexum wrote: is it planned to make a 3.0.6 version of acidtech? ❋ Unknown (2010)
Erik Frèrejean » Mon Nov 16, 2009 10: 24 pm nexum wrote: lol they won't tell us a release date for phpbb3. 0.6 so don't expect a release date for phpbb4 ❋ Unknown (2009)
SaUpia nexum praeclare stabilimit ha - Namnm hiscriptum retrogrsde, et li - nun numi urbinm; nam omnium trium teris Etniscis — ENTdEI, in qno liinc partes aversae equnm «oitenteu exhibeut capid MmmrH, inde Pegetu», quem KhtX - addito praeterea magistratus nomine. ❋ Unknown (1792)
