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At the word fregit in the form of consecration, the priest, according to the Ordinal of 1312 and later rubrics, makes a movement as if breaking the host.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock 1840-1916 1913
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No, the “breaking” in this phrase is “breaking the close,” from the ancient writ of trespass quare clausum fregit.
The Volokh Conspiracy » The Strange Practice of Indicting in the Conjunctive: 2009
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With that in mind, I stand assured that all right-thinking people will agree with me that the "Empire State" would do well to retain the writ of trespass quare clausum fregit.
Judges in shorts. Ann Althouse 2008
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Maitland's The Forms of Action at Common Law (1909) is the classic treatise on trespass quare clausum fregit, trespass vi et armis, trespass on the case, and all those other terms that used to convince many first-year law students to buy copies of Black's Law Dictionary that they never used again.
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Camden in Wiltsh. miserum senem ita fame et calamitatibus in carcere fregit, inter mortis metum, et vitae tormenta,
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'Secuit Lucilius urbem, te Lupe, te Muci, et genuinum fregit in illis.'
The Student's Companion to Latin Authors Thomas Ross Mills
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The latter have greater rivalry in the _hordes_ of practitioners from the interior whom the "new code" have driven from their _trespass quare clausum fregit_ into the city.
The International Monthly Magazine - Volume V - No II Various
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Tanta dulcedine captos afficit ille animos tantaque libidine volgi auditur; sed, cum fregit subsellia versu, esurit, intactam Paridi nisi vendit Agaven. '
The Student's Companion to Latin Authors Thomas Ross Mills
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'Secuit Lucilius urbem, te, Lupe, te, Muci, et genuinum fregit in illis; omne vafer vitium ridenti Flaccus amico tangit, et admissus circum praecordia ludit, callidus excusso populum suspendere naso.'
The Student's Companion to Latin Authors Thomas Ross Mills
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Ossium annulos fregit; telum per omnem penetravit moribundam carnem.
The Translations of Beowulf A Critical Bibliography Chauncey Brewster Tinker 1919
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