Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In Roman law, legal: noting a certain class or form of rights, as distinguished from
bonitarian . The use is equivalent to that of legal in modern law, in contradistinction to equitable.
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Ownership was quiritarian or bonitarian: quiritarian, when acquired by the jus civile only available to Roman citizens; bonitarian, when acquired by any natural, as distinguished from civil, means.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy 1840-1916 1913
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First, the Roman or quiritarian property in the soil, (commercium,) and its capability of mancipation, usucaption, and vindication; moreover, as an inseparable consequence of this, exemption from land-tax.
History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 2 Edward Gibbon 1765
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First, the Roman or quiritarian property in the soil, (commercium,) and its capability of mancipation, usucaption, and vindication; moreover, as an inseparable consequence of this, exemption from land-tax.
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 1206
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