单词 | centumviral court |
释义 | > as lemmascentumviral court 1. Roman History. Of or relating to the centumviri (see centumvir n.). Frequently in centumviral court. ΘΚΠ society > law > administration of justice > judicial body, assembly, or court > [adjective] > ancient Roman centumviral1600 1600 P. Holland in tr. Livy Rom. Hist. 2nd Index, sig. Eeeeeeiijv/1 The Centumvirall or Decemvirall jurisdiction in supplie or assistance of the Prætorian. 1660 R. Stapleton in tr. Juvenal Mores Hominum 441 Presidents of the Centumvirall Ballot. 1717 J. Hughes tr. Suetonius Lives XII. Cæsars I. 88 The Centumviral Court, which was usually held by the Questors, shou'd be held by the Decemviri. 1747 W. Melmoth tr. Pliny Lett. I. vi. xxxiii. 367 The solemnity of the centumviral tribunal. 1821 J. G. Lockhart Valerius I. v. 75 The appearance he had made the day before in the Centumviral Court. 1880 J. Muirhead in tr. Gaius Institutes iv. 276 (note) The centumviral court seems to have been a competent forum in a great range of cases. 1918 Mich. Law Rev. 16 309 Popular courts like the Athenian dicasts or the Roman centumviral court. 1953 Trans. Amer. Philol. Soc. 43 386/2 The matter went to a court selected from the centumviral list. 2011 H. Lindsay in B. Rawson Compan. Families Greek & Rom. World xxi. 347 This claim..was prosecuted in the Centumviral court. < as lemmas |
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