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Polish Auxiliary Forces and their Law Academic Scripts at the University Camp in Grangeneuve/Fribourg

Acta Universitatis Lodziensis Folia Iuridica, 2022
The soldiers of the 2nd Division of Rifle Infantry interned in Switzerland in the years 1940–1945 were offered an opportunity to undertake studies on the grounds of cooperation between war camps and Swiss academies.
Izabela Leraczyk
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Refusing disembodiment: abortion and the paradox of reproductive rights in contemporary Italy [PDF]

, 2009
Employing insights from Italian sexual difference theory on law and rights, this article examines how both the text of the Italian Abortion Law of 1978 and its operation reveal the contradictions within liberal rights discourse on reproductive freedom ...
Hanafin, Patrick
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Moral Certainty of the Judge in the Canonical Process to Determine the Nullity of Marriage v. the Principle Testis Unus Testis Nullus

Religions, 2023
The present article discusses the issue of moral certainty in the canonical process for the annulment of marriage and analyzes the problem of applying the procedural principle testis unus testis nullus.
Karol Krystian Adamczewski
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Testamentary Bequests for Pious Purposes in the Christian Roman Empire

Journal on European History of Law, 2010
The document explores the legal capacity of the church to receive bequests for pious purposes within the Christian Roman Empire. It delves into the foundational case where the church was designated as the heir or was bequeathed a legacy or a fiduciary ...
Pál Sáry
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The oath on the Bible stored in Justinian's law

Journal on European History of Law, 2011
The pagan Romans, like other ancient peoples, placed great importance on the oath. This significant role of oath-taking persisted even after the triumph of Christianity, both in private and public spheres.
Pál Sáry
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Consumers as Unassisted Minors: Asymmetrical Sanction for Unfair Contract Terms

Laws, 2022
The consumer distance contract regulated within the European Union was compared to the Roman law solution known by its medieval name as negotium claudicans, thus to the contract with unassisted pupilli (children under the age of puberty, i.e., minors ...
Grzegorz J. Blicharz
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Galen’s Recipe for Untypical Sitz Bath (ἐγκάθισμα)

Erga-Logoi, 2023
The article discusses an unusual prescription for a sitz bath (ἐγκάθισμα) derived from Galen’s treatise De compositione medicamentorum per genera. The term ἐγκάθισμα is not used in any other known fragment of the writings of the famous Pergamonian.
Krzysztof Jagusiak, Konrad Tadajczyk
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Buried Treasure: some lesser-known items in the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies [PDF]

, 1992
Preprint of an article written in 1992 by Paul Norman (then Senior Assistant Librarian at IALS) describing some rare and lesser-known works in the Roman law, Roman-Dutch law and English law collections of IALS Library.
Norman, Paul
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Minimum Age Difference as a Requisite for Adoption [PDF]

, 1966
Recent incidents of abortive uses of adoption statutes have pointed up the possible need for a healthy change in our adoption laws: the inclusion of a required age difference between adopter and adoptee. The author urges that such a statutory requirement
Wadlington, Walter J., III
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The Procedural Acquisition of Objects Stolen for the Sake of Divorce in D. 25.2.22 pr.

Journal on European History of Law, 2023
The actio rerum amotarum applies in a special case in the area of theft: the misappropriation of property between spouses in the event of divorce. In D. 25.2.22 pr., Iul.
Stefan Schmatzberger
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