Papinian
Americannoun
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Papinian himself wrote that servitudes cannot be partially extinguished, because they are due from lands, not persons.
From The Common Law by Oliver Wendell Holmes
Papinian, a native it seems of the Syrian town of Emesa, and a kinsman of the Syrian wife of Septimius Severus, was the author of numerous legal works, both in Greek and Latin.
From Latin Literature by J. W. (John William) Mackail
Papinian, 48, 2, 2—who adds that she could also do so in a case regarding the will of a mother or father's freedman.
From A Short History of Women's Rights From the Days of Augustus to the Present Time. with Special Reference to England and the United States. Second Edition Revised, With Additions. by Eugene Arthur Hecker
Perhaps, if the preceptors and friends of Cicero were still alive, our candor would acknowledge that, except in purity of language, their intrinsic merit was excelled by the school of Papinian and Ulpian.
From The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 04 by Charles F. (Charles Francis) Horne
Following Papinian other eminent jurists filled this office.
From A History of Rome to 565 A. D. by Arthur Edward Romilly Boak
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