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	Praetor - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Praetor was also a title of office among the Latins: and it is the name which Livy gives to the strategus of the Achaeans.
		The praetor sometimes commanded the armies of the state; and while the consuls were absent with the armies, he exercised their functions within the city.
		The Praetor when he administered justice sat on a sella Curulis in a Tribunal, which was that part of the Court which was appropriated to the Praetor and his assessors and friends, and is opposed to the Subsellia, or part occupied by the Judices, and others who were present.
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	Praetor (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		According to Cicero, Praetor was a title which designated the consuls as the leaders of the armies of the state; and he considers the word to contain thesame elemental parts as the verb praeire.
		The praetor sometimes commanded the armies of the state; and while the consuls were absent with the armies, he exercised theirfunctions within the city.
		The Praetor when he administered justice sat on a sella Curulis in a Tribunal, which was that part of the Court which was appropriated to the Praetor and his assessors and friends,and is opposed to the Subsellia, or part occupied by the Judices, and others who were present.
	www.therfcc.org /praetor-19301.html (936 words)

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		praetor praetorprēt´er, in ancient Rome, originally a consul, and later a judicial magistrate (from c.366 BC).
		In 242 BC two praetors were appointed, the urban praetor (praetor urbanus), deciding cases to which citizens were parties, and the peregrine praetor (praetor peregrinus) deciding cases between foreigners.
		Peregrinus, Petrus Peregrinus, Petrus (Peter the Pilgrim)pē´tres pĕregrĬn´es, c.1220-?, medieval scholar and soldier.
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	Praetor: Definition and Links by Encyclopedian.com - All about Praetor
		According to Cicero Praetor was a title which designated the consuls as the leaders of the armies of the state; and he considers the word to contain the same elemental parts as the verb praeire.
		Sulla increased the number of Praetors to eight, which Julius Caesar raised successively to ten, twelve, fourteen, and sixteen.
		Sometimes, extraordinary duties were imposed on them, as in the case of the Praetor Peregrinus (144 BC) who was commissioned by a Senatusconsultum[?] to look after the repair of certain aqueducts and to prevent the improper use of the water.
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	Praetor -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The Praetorship was originally a kind of third (The post of consul) consulship, and the chief functions of the praetor were a portion of the functions of the consuls, who according to Cicero, were also called judices a judicando.
		In the year 246 BC another Praetor was appointed, whose business was to administer justice in matters in dispute between peregrini, or peregrini and Roman citizens; and accordingly he was called (additional info and facts about Praetor Peregrinus) Praetor Peregrinus.
		The Praetors existed with varying numbers to a late period in the (The domain ruled by an emperor or empress) Empire.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/p/pr/praetor.htm (1053 words)

	Praetor - WCD (Wiki Classical Dictionary) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The praetor was a Roman magistrate responsible for the administration of justice.
		When new territories were conquered, no new praetors were appointed; it became the Senate's habit to find governors for these new provinces by appointing propraetors and proconsuls, typically from the ranks of former praetors.
		The praetors were chosen by the Comitia centuriata, an assembly of the people in which the richest Romans were in the majority.
	www.ancientlibrary.com /wcd/Praetor (354 words)

	Cursus honorum - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Also, a Praetor could exercise the functions of the Consuls throughout Rome, but their main function was that of a judge.
		After a term as Praetor, the magistrate would serve as a provincial governor in the office of Propraetor, owning Propraetor imperium, commanding the province’s legions, and possessed ultimate authority within their province(s).
		Their abilities to govern were only limited by the decrees of the Senate or the people's assemblies, and the Tribune of the Plebs were unable to veto their acts as long as the governor remained at least a mile outside of Rome.
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Cursus_honorum (2281 words)

	Encyclopedia: Praetor (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Achaea (Greek:, AkhaÃ¯a) is a province on the northern coast of the Peloponnese, stretching from the mountain ranges of Erymanthus and Cyllene on the south to a narrow strip of fertile land on the north, bordering the Gulf of Corinth, into which the mountain Panachaicus (1,902 m, the...
		See also Roman Republic (18th century) and Roman Republic (19th century) The Roman Republic (Latin: Res Publica Romanorum) was the republican government of the city of Rome and its territories from 510 BC until the establishment of the Roman Empire, which sometimes placed at 44 BC the year of Caesar...
		Sallust (Gaius Sallustius Crispus) (86-34 BC), Roman historian, belonging to a well-known plebeian family, was born at Amiternum in the country of the Sabines.
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	AllRefer.com - praetor (Ancient History, Rome) - Encyclopedia
		B.C. two praetors were appointed, the urban praetor (praetor urbanus), deciding cases to which citizens were parties, and the peregrine praetor (praetor peregrinus) deciding cases between foreigners.
		The urban praetor exercised the functions of the consuls in their absence and of the peregrine praetor when he was holding a military command.
		Under the empire the functions of the praetor were gradually taken over by other magistrates.
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		At first a conservative and a partisan of Sulla, he was praetor in 68 BC and governor of Africa in 67 BC The next year he was barred from candidacy for the consulship by false accusations of misconduct in office.
		His rise in civil and military office was steady; he became a senator (c.180), praetor (193), consul (220?), proconsul in Africa (224), legate in Dalmatia (226), l...
		The fasces were cylindrical bundles of wooden rods, tied tightly together, from which an axe projected; they were borne by guards, called lictors, before praetors, consuls, proconsuls, dictators, and emperors.
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	Praetor
		In 242, a second praetor was introduced, the praetor peregrinus, who was responsible for Italy.
		In 227, two additional praetors were introduced: they were responsible for the provinces of Sicily and Sardinia/Corsica.
		Not much later, a new task was given to the praetor urbanus: he was to be the chairman of the law court that judged corrupt governors.
	www.livius.org /pp-pr/praetor/praetor.html (333 words)

	POLITICAL INSTITUTIONS OF THE ROMAN REPUBLIC
		The Praetor Peregrinus: he heard cases in which one or both parties were foreigners, peregrini.
		Praetors could be assigned to a Province at the end of their term of office.
		quattuor praefecti Capuam Cumas: the judicial representatives of the praetor in Campania.
	www.hoocher.com /politicalinstitutions.htm (1673 words)

	Gaius Cassius Longinus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In 44 BC became Praetor Peregrinus with the promise of the Syrian province for the ensuing year.
		The appointment of his junior, Marcus Junius Brutus, as praetor urbanus deeply offended him, and only deepened the hatred and resentment Cassius felt for the dictator.
		In June, the Senate assigned Cassius the province of Cyrene in order to give him clearance to leave Italy while retaining his office as praetor.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Gaius_Cassius_Longinus (1086 words)

	praetor (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Eventually two praetors were elected annually, from the upper citizen classes as magistracies were not at first open to plebeians.
		One praetor served as the urban praetor, praetor urbanus, who decided cases in the city to which citizens were parties; the other became the external praetor, praetor peregrinus, who decided cases involving one or more foreigners and served as the supreme authority in the provinces.
		The urban praetor remained in Rome, primarily as a judge in the law courts, but he could also convene the comitia and initiate legislation.
	www.vroma.org /%7Earaia/praetor.html (328 words)

	Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, page 956 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Though Exceptio and Praescriptio came to be used as equivalent, yet neither Exceptio nor Praescriptio is used in the sense of Temporis praescriptio with out the addition of the words Temporis, Temporalis, triginta annorum, andc.
		3) Praetor was a title which designated the consuls as the leaders of the armies of the state ; and he considers the word to contain the same elemental parts as the verb praeire.
		Two praetors were appointed by Claudius for matters relating to Fideicommissa, when the business in this department of the law had become considerable, but Titus reduced the number to one ; and Nerva added a Praetor for the decision of matters between the Fiscus and individuals.
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	Praetor (3) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		In 242, a second praetor was introduced, the praetor...
		praetors were appointed, the urban praetor (praetor urbanus), deciding cases to which...
		were parties, and the peregrine praetor (praetor peregrinus) deciding cases between foreigners...
	www.protar.it /internet/antispam/praetor-3.html (330 words)

	Praetor
		Specialty definitions using "praetor": Death from Strange Causes, Dignus Vindice Nodus ♦ Nail fixed in the Temple.
		"Praetor" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time.
		"Praetor" is used about 9 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English.
	www.websters-online-dictionary.org /pr/praetor.html (1533 words)

	Tarlton Law Library - the Peregrinus
		The Peregrinus, the law school mascot, was born in 1901 in William S. Simkins's Equity class.
		In 1908, the engineering students, seeking their own mascot, took a wooden statue of a Dutchman holding a stein from a local beer garden and dubbed the statue Alexander Frederick Clare, or “Alec, ” patron saint of engineering students.
		Peregrinating from one nation to the other, he was called a Praetor Peregrinus.
	tarlton.law.utexas.edu /students/peregrinus.html (418 words)

	Praetor Resource Web Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		A Praetor Urbanus was responsible for the administration of duties at Rome.
		Praetor Hiren is the president of the Romulan Senate.
		He is a qualified politician in his But Praetor Hiren doesn't want to hear about it.
	www.dicomode.qc.ca /praetor.html (181 words)

	Roman Government Officials
		Praetor Peregrinus--dealt with disputes where one or both parties were foreigners.
		The Comitia Tributa met in the Roman Forum for legislation and judgments, and in the Campus Martius for elections.
		It also was a legislative body which votes on legal measures submitted to it by the presiding magistrate.
	www.bol.ucla.edu /%7Esmartin/rome/gloss/govt.html (592 words)

	Praetor from LiveJournal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Second, you claim that the government with which Praetor Innocent, formerly known as Bishop Thomas Allen of the Sanctified, headed was not one with which had been supported and acknowledged by any Invictus.
		And for a moment, all hell breaks loose, as some Praetor officer figures things notably aren't right, and a flash of ion cannons light the night sky, chasing the speeders as they make their assault.
		Basic story, young Romulan Praetor takes over in a coup, seizes control of Genesis technology while The Federation is arguing over what to do with it, takes the Marcus family prisoner.
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	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The doctrine just stated indicates the hesitation of the Praetors in making their advances towards the greatest of their innovations.
		Their theory of Natural law must have led them to look with especial favour on the Consensual Contracts and on those Pacts or Conventions of which the Consensual Contracts were only particular instances; but they did not at once venture on extending to all Conventions the liberty of the Consensual Contracts.
		The revolution of the ancient law of Contract was consummated when the Praetor of some one year announced in his Edict that he would grant equitable actions upon Pacts which had never been matured at all into Contracts, provided only that the Pacts in question had been founded on a consideration (causa).
	www.ecn.bris.ac.uk /het/maine/chap09 (10375 words)

	SVP -Common Law vs Civil Law
		In the later days of the republic the praetor urbanus was the magistrate chiefly concerned in the administration of justice.
		There was given to the praetor urbanus authority to devise new rules and orders applicable to special cases which might be brought before him.
		In this way, through the jurisdiction of the praetor urbanus, new actions, enforcing claims not before recognized by the law, and new rules of law applicable to the changing wants of society, were established.
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		The first indications of the application of this concept are to be found in the work of the praetors.
		It is interesting to see that at times when legal thinkers attached little weight to such principles they formed convenient sources for the extraction of new legal ideas by those who found the law too harsh and too formalistic in its applications.
		Such principles were used by the praetors and jurists in rendering decisions which were just and equitable, and in adapting the rigid formulas of the jus civile to form the jus gentium.
	www.constitution.org /haines/haines.txt (14169 words)

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		Foreign affairs and the defence of the realm are taken care of by the Praetor Peregrinus.
		He is appointed by the Consul-General, and is in operational control or the armed forces.
		Abundant uranium resources have allowed the praetors to undertake a great deal of nuclear testing.
	clausewitz2.tripod.com /frisland.htm (1167 words)

	The Family Cornelii Scipiones (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		BCE, he reputedly saved his father's life at the battle of Ticinius in 218, and as military triune, to have rallied the Romans after their defeat by Hannibal at Cannae.
		Probably curule aedile in 195 BCE, and praetor in Sicily in 193.
		Probably the son of Scipio Hispallus, consul of 176 BC Gnaeus Cornelius Scipio Hispanus, son of Gnaeus, praetor, curule aedile, quaestor, tribune of the soldiers twice, member of the Board of Ten for judging law suits, member of the Board of Ten for making sacrifices.
	www.barca.fsnet.co.uk /scipio-family.htm (1946 words)

	Praetor (4) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Informazioni su Praetor: i siti su "Praetor" da 34 a 40 sono:
		kam der Praetor peregrinus hinzu, der in Rechtsstreitigkeiten zwischen...
		Ait praetor § Puto autem (D. 4.4.7 [nunc 2 prope finem])...
	www.protar.it /internet/antispam/praetor-4.html (223 words)

	Cassius (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		After Pharsalus he became reconciled to Caesar, who made him one of his legates.
		He then became praetor peregrinus with the promise of the Syrian province for the ensuing year.
		The appointment of his junior, Marcus Junius Brutus, as praetor urbanus deeply offended him, and he was one of the busiest Conspirators against Caesar, taking an active part in the actual assassination.
	www.portaljuice.com /cassius.html (322 words)

	Sparing the Hornets' Nest
		And then there was the wealthy island of Rhodes, caught in its very ignorance of Pydna attempting to mediate between King Perseus and Rome.
		Such temerity was as unforgivable as Rhodes' wealth, and the praetor peregrinus of 168, M'.
		Juventius Thalna, strode confidently to the Rostra to demand a declaration of war and a fleet command to chastise the insolent island.
	ccat.sas.upenn.edu /rrice/hornets.html (603 words)

	Haines: Revival of Natural Law Concepts: Chapter I
		In the development of a law relating to the commercial dealings between citizens and aliens, where formerly only the principle of bona fides or good faith prevailed, the praetor peregrinus gradually built a legal system based on reason and common sense.
		The praetor, by means of the edict and through his right to refuse an action worked out an equitable law — the jus gentium — which tended to displace the rigors of the jus civile.
		It was this kind of natural law — principles of common law recurring among different nations — on which international law and certain parts of developing public law were based in the sixteenth century.
	www.constitution.org /haines/haines_001.htm (8244 words)

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