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Thus in 22 Edward IV., counsel say, "If I bail to you my goods, and another takes them out of your possession, I shall have good action of trespass quare vi et armis." /1/ And this seems to have been Rolle's understanding in the passage usually relied on by modern courts. /2/
But to proceed: Earl Douglas on a milk-white steed, Most like a baron bold, Rode foremost of the company, Whose armour shone like gold. Turnus, ut antevolans tardum praecesserat agmen, &c. Vidisti, quo Turnus equo, quibus ibat in armis Aurcus AEn. ix. 47, 269. Our English archers bent their bows, Their hearts were good and true; At the first flight of arrows sent, Full threescore Scots they slew.
Though methinks I am a better bowman than ever I was a monk, having got me some repute with this my bow." "Methinks thy choice was but a sorry one for " "Choice quotha! 'Twas no choice, 'twas forced upon me, vi et armis. I should be chanting prime or matins at this very hour but for this tongue o' mine, God bless it!
'Confine yourself at present to the soldier of Crassus. 'Yes, sir. Et, and consenuit, has he grown old in armis, in the er arms hositum socerorum, of his father-in-law's enemies. 'Who? How? Which? 'Arms of his enemies' fathers-in-law, sir. 'Tha-anks. By the way, what meaning might you attach to in armis?
He must either bring a writ of ejectment, or drive him out vi et armis. And then, after further argument of the same sort, he asked judgment, and sat down amidst great applause. Mr. Wickham then rose, and made an argument of a similar pattern. No rule, he said, requires an impossibility. Mr.
And though the fault was not mine, he would have sent me to prison if I had not had a letter for him." "Oh!" And returning with a manifest effort to the tone and manner of a few minutes before: "Impiger, Iracundus, Inexorabilis, acer Jura neget sibi nata, nihil non arroget armis," he hummed. "I doubt if such manners will be appreciated in Geneva, young man," and furtively he wiped his brow.
He was dressing when his uncle knocked at his door. "Here is a shock, Gerald! I hope it is chiefly to our masque. These people have absconded, and carried off our poor little Mona." "What? Absconded? My sister! I must be after them instantly," cried Gerald, wildly snatching at his coat. "What good would that do? you can't carry her off vi et armis." "Send the police." "No possibility.
At length I beheld old Ready-Money Jack making his way into the very thickest of the throng; tearing it, as it were, apart, and enforcing peace vi et armis. It was surprising to see the sudden quiet that ensued. The storm settled down at once into tranquillity.
But unfortunately the time had passed away, and the seeds had fallen. While ranging here in the forest we stopped under an ants' nest, and, by the dirt below, conjectured that it had got new tenants. Thinking it no harm to dislodge them, "vi et armis," an Indian boy ascended the tree, but before he reached the nest out flew above a dozen vampires.
"I was lucky, therefore, in escaping from such ridicule," said Hardenberg, gravely. "A minister who is taken home by his servants vi et armis, because he takes the liberty not to return at an early hour what a splendid farce that would be! Pray be kind enough to tell my servants that their anxiety was very foolish.
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