Papinian
Americannoun
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Were not a great number of famous jurists like Ulpian of Tyre and Papinian of Hemesa natives of Syria?
From The Oriental Religions in Roman Paganism by Cumont, Franz
Papinian himself wrote that servitudes cannot be partially extinguished, because they are due from lands, not persons.
From The Common Law by Holmes, Oliver Wendell
More than a third of the whole Pandects is from Ulpian, and next to him, the principal writers are Paulus, Papinian, Salvius Julianus, Pomponius, Q. Cervidius Scaevola, and Gaius.
From The Old Roman World, : the Grandeur and Failure of Its Civilization. by Lord, John
After the fall of Plautianus, an eminent lawyer, the celebrated Papinian, was appointed to execute the motley office of Prætorian Præfect.
From History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 1 by Milman, Henry Hart
The honest labors of Papinian served only to inflame the hatred which Caracalla had already conceived against his father's minister.
From History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 1 by Milman, Henry Hart
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