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He then showed his back disfigured with the marks of recent scourging. At this sight and these words a great uproar arose. The tumult now no longer confined itself to the forum, but spread everywhere through the entire city. The nexi, both those who were imprisoned, and those who were now at liberty, hurried into the streets from all quarters and implored the protection of the Quirites.
"The first step," murmured Leithgow abstractedly, out of his concentration on dials and patient. "The muscles notice relaxed. The will the ego the nexi of emotions and volitions which oppose external direction all being worked upon, submerged, neutralized but not his knowledge, not his skill. No all that he will retain! You'll notice nothing more until you see his eyes. A few minutes.
So long as the business lasted it was a nexum, and the parties were nexi; but the moment it was completed, the nexum ended, and the vendor and purchaser ceased to bear the name derived from their momentary relation. But now, let us move a step onward in commercial history. Suppose the slave transferred, but the money not paid.
At the earliest dawn of the jurisprudence, the term in use for a Contract was one which is very familiar to the students of historical Latinity. It was nexum, and the parties to the contract were said to be nexi, expressions which must be carefully attended to on account of the singular durableness of the metaphor on which they are founded.
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