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modus - definition and meaning
Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
noun mode .noun Roman and civil law , and early English law , the manner or qualifying terms of a gift or disposition of property.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
noun (Old Law) The arrangement of, or mode of expressing, the terms of a contract or conveyance.noun (Law) A qualification involving the idea of variation or departure from some general rule or form, in the way of either restriction or enlargement, according to the circumstances of the case, as in the will of a donor, an agreement between parties, and the like.noun (Law) A fixed compensation or equivalent given instead of payment of tithes in kind, expressed in full by the phrase modus decimandi .
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"Est modus in rebus, sunt certi denique fines [952];" that is to say, a _modus_ [953] as to the tithes and certain _fines_ [954]. '
Life of Johnson, Volume 3 1776-1780 James Boswell 1767
For years, the Vatican has worked to restore what Pope Benedict XVI has called a modus vivendi between modern reason and faith.
Islam 2010
The basic sentences (2: 1) - (2: 4) combined with a simple categorical sentence as the second premise boil down to what we today know as modus ponens and modus tollens.
The Statue of a Writer 2009
Ginzberg writes that she herself is personally convinced that the inferential pattern called modus ponens (If p, then q; p; therefore q) is valid.
Feminism and Philosophy: An Exchange Cope-Kasten, Vance 1995
The Japanese government, Roosevelt, and some Japan officers in the State Department all proposed abandoning the search for a comprehensive agreement in favor of negotiating a temporary agreement, what the diplomats called a modus vivendi from the Latin, a way of living.
Interpretations of American History Gerald N. Grob 1967
The Japanese government, Roosevelt, and some Japan officers in the State Department all proposed abandoning the search for a comprehensive agreement in favor of negotiating a temporary agreement, what the diplomats called a modus vivendi from the Latin, a way of living.
Interpretations of American History Gerald N. Grob 1967
This is true not only in cases of evident marital failure but also in marriages characterized by a modus vivendi which is bearable or at least borne.
Conflict and The Web of Group-Affiliations Georg Simmel 1956
This is true not only in cases of evident marital failure but also in marriages characterized by a modus vivendi which is bearable or at least borne.
Conflict and The Web of Group-Affiliations Georg Simmel 1956
This is true not only in cases of evident marital failure but also in marriages characterized by a modus vivendi which is bearable or at least borne.
Conflict and The Web of Group-Affiliations Georg Simmel 1956
Now this agreement with His Majesty's Government is what you have seen in the papers, called the modus vivendi.
The Newfoundland Fisheries Question 1906
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