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SUMPTUARY LAWS (from Lat. sumptuarius, belonging to cost or expense, sumptus), those laws intended to limit or regulate the private expenditure of the citizens of a community. They may be dictated by political, or economic, or moral considerations. They have e ...

... be allowed to quit the stage in order to become a nun. There were also numerous sumptuary regulations as to the dress of actors. None of the law which has been mentioned so far was adopted by Justinian, but what follows was incorporated in Cod. xi. 40 (De Spec ...

... ermites, to obtain which it opens their nests with its powerful sharp anterior claws, and as the insects swarm to the damaged part of their dwelling, it draws them into its mouth by means of its long, flexible, rapidly moving tongue covered with glutinous sali ...

... nto the " exploitation " alleged against the Jews, the reasons why " the former laws limiting the rights of the Jews " had been mitigated, and how these laws could be altered so as " to stop the pernicious conduct of the Jews " (Rescript of the 3rd of Septembe ...

... pistles of single apostles, some parts of them being our Saviour's own original laws delivered to the apostles, and the other parts the public acts of the apostles " (Historical preface to Primitive Christianity Revived, pp. 85-86). Others, however, realized t ...

... her researches in this subject, which led to the enunciation of the fundamental laws of the polarization of light known by their names (see POLARIZATION). A* a result of thu work Arago constructed a polariscope, which he used for some interesting observations ...

... Aragon, by I. J. de Asso y del Rio (Saragossa, 1798). For the^ constitution and laws of Aragon, see Origines del Justicia de Aragon, &c., by J. Ribera Tarrago (Saragossa, 1897), and Institutions y reyes de Aragon, by V. Balaguer (Madrid, 1896). The topography, ...

... ate, and supported himself by teaching mathematics. In 1692 he published Of the Laws of Chance . . . , based on the Latin version, De Ratociniis in ludo aleae, of a Dutch treatise by Christiaan Huygens. In 1692 he entered University College, Oxford, as a fello ...

... ato, at the age of sixty-two, had probably written all his dialogue* except the Laws; and in the course of the remaining twenty years of his life and teaching, he expounded " the socalled unwritten dogmas " in his lectures on the Good. There was therefore a wr ...

... the decisions of the councils and the works of the Fathers a summary of divine laws under the title Synopsis Canonum. This was published (Greek original and Latin version) by G. Voel and H. Justel in Bibliotheca Jur. Canon. Vet. (Paris, 1661), 749 foil. Some ...

... the decisions of the councils and the works of the Fathers a summary of divine laws under the title Synopsis Canonum. This was published (Greek original and Latin version) by G. Voel and H. Justel in Bibliotheca Jur. Canon. Vet. (Paris, 1661), 749 foil. Some ...

... y death. It appears early in the history of English law, being known in ancient laws by the term of boernel. It is mentioned by Cnut as one of the bootless crimes, and under the Saxon laws was punishable by death. The sentence of death for arson was, says Step ...

... advantage for our purposes of the properties we find. A ship floats by the same laws of specific gravity and equilibrium as a tree uprooted by the wind and blown into the water. The corn which men raise for food grows and produces its grain by the same laws of ...

... cused of harbouring a priest. In 1637 he was declared exempt from the recusancy laws by the king's order, but in 1639 he again petitioned for relief. The same year he paid £500 in lieu of attending the king at York. He died on the 7th of November 1639. Arundel ...

... d. He was hanged at York in July, expressing repentance for breaking the king's laws, but declaring that he had promise of pardon both from Cromwell and from Henry. It is related that his servant, Robert Wall, died of grief at the thought of his master's appro ...

... Astrology, &c.). Dr Wilde insists on there being " nothing incongruous with the laws of nature in the theory that the sun, moon and stars influence men's physical bodies and conditions, seeing that man is made up of a physical part of the earth." There is an o ...

... echanics, the science by •which, using purely deductive mechanical methods, the laws of motion of the heavenly bodies are derived by deductive methods from their mutual gravitation towards each other. Practical Astronomy, which comprises a description of the i ...

... ence, which has been fostered by centuries of isolation. Despite the harsh land-laws and grinding taxation which prevent them, with all their industry and thrift, from securing the freehold of the patch of ground cultivated by each peasant family, the Asturian ...

... tions annexed to the Hague Convention of the 29th of July 1899, relating to the Laws and Customs of War on Land. (See WAR.) (T. BA.)

... 652, leaving to Aubrey large estates, and with them, unfortunately, complicated lawsuits. Aubrey, however, lived gaily, and used his means to gratify his passion for the company of celebrities and for every sort of knowledge to be gleaned about them. Anthony a ...

... onfidence of the chamber, and was its president in 1875 when the constitutional laws were being drawn up. Nominated senator under the new constitution, he likewise was president of the senate from March 1876 to 1879 when his party lost the majority. Henceforth ...

... uary 1861, by which the provincial diets were created ; (5) the six fundamental laws of the 2ist of December 1867, which contain the exposition and guarantee of the civil and political rights of the citizen, the organization of justice, the organization and me ...

... cused of harbouring a priest. In 1637 he was declared exempt from the recusancy laws by the king's order, but in 1639 he again petitioned for relief. The same year he paid £500 in lieu of attending the king at York. He died on the 7th of November 1639. Arundel ...

... ngly Puritan; they were strongly Protestant and demanded the enforcement of the laws against recusants, who suffered much, specially after the Gunpowder Plot of 1605, though they were sometimes shielded by the king. The Commons regarded ecclesiastical jurisdic ...

... in strictness before the Conquest, but, with gradually increasing laxity in the laws of alliteration and rhythm, it continued long in use. It is commonly believed, with great intrinsic probability but with scanty actual evidence, that in the Old English period ...

... the departure of the Romans. It was at this time, or soon afterwards, that the laws and usages of the Gorsedd were codified and remodelled, and its motto of " Y gwir yn erbyn y byd " (The truth against the world) given to it. " Chairs " (with which the Eisted ...

... y, and who are acquainted with the twenty-four measures according to the bardic laws and rules of composition." EKATERINBURG common action of trespass; and the claimant's title, being the real foundation of the lessee's right, was thus indirectly determined. T ...

... g Zamama-sum-iddin and carried away a stela of Naram-Sin and the famous code of laws of Khammurabi from Sippara, as well as a stela of Manistusu from Akkuttum or Akkad. He also conquered the land of Asnunnak and carried off from Padan a stela belonging to a re ...

... n 1827, and since known as Ohm's Law. Cavendish also enunciated in 1776 all the laws of division of electric current between circuits in parallel, although they are generally supposed to have been first given by Sir C. Wheatstone. Another of his great investig ...

... cond quarter of the loth century. But the spirit in which Emerson conceived the laws of life, reverenced them and lived them out, was the Puritan spirit, elevated, enlarged and beautified by the poetic temperament. His father was the Rev. William Emerson, mini ...

... am — " Go tell the Spartans, thou that passest by, That here, obedient to their laws, we lie. A hymn of Simonides on the same subject contains some lines of great beauty in praise of those who were buried at Thermopylae, and these may be regarded as forming a ...

... . Even in the Institutes of Justinian the distinction is carefully drawn in the laws of a country between those which are peculiar to itself and those which natural reason appoints for all mankind. The connexion in Roman law between the ideas of equity, nature ...

... s creates wealth for rapacious lords to plunder; plebeian magistrates pass good laws for kings to violate; the people love peace, and their rulers stir up war." Such outbursts are frequent in the Adagia. These freedoms arc part cause of Erasmus's popularity. H ...

... be a justification of actions which are contrary to the moral code and to human laws; and its general tendency is to find excuses for the majority of human frailties. His doctrines were disapproved of by many Catholics, and were mildly condemned by Rome. They ...

... s give us an idea as to the aristocratic basis of the government. Of the actual laws we know something also. Cicero (Din. ii. 23) tells the story of the miraculous uncovering by a ploughboy of a child who had the wisdom of a sage, and how the child's words wer ...

... at he sees. Until the comparative study of philology and the development of the laws underlying phonetic changes, the derivation of words was a matter mostly of guess-work, sometimes right but more often wrong, based on superficial resemblances of form and the ...

... ainst the other two; if he is euchred his adversaries score two each ; by other laws he is set back two points, and should his score be at love, he has then to make seven points. The procedure is the same as in two-handed euchre. Four-handed Euchre. — The game ...

... t the science has advanced beyond the stage of disseminating a knowledge of the laws of heredity, so far as they are surely known, and endeavouring to promote their further study. Useful work has been done in the compilation of statistics of the various condit ...

... d the right of concluding alliances with any foreign power, of making their own laws, and of carrying on war. Thus, in consequence of this most important concession of the emperor, the Empire lost all cohesion and became little more than a confederation. The s ...

... airs of appendages similar in form and function, each tipped with two or three claws. Opisthosoma when segmented showing the same number of somites as in the Pedipalpi ; usually unsegmented, the prae-genital somite constricted to form the waist; the appendages ...