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Deditio or deditiones was a ritual of submission in medieval Europe. It was a ceremony of subjection between a monarch and his subject, and included the latter bowing or laying by the feet of the monarch, barefooted and wearing ropes. It was a planned ceremony, agreed upon, and was used as a means of avoidance of escalation of conflicts, a strategy of peaceful solving of conflicts.
Usage examples of "deditio".
The hatred for anything giving us pain, which wreaks itself on the manifest cause, and which leads even civilized man to kick a door when it pinches his finger, is embodied in the noxoe deditio and [12] other kindred doctrines of early Roman law.
Whatever may be the true explanation of surrender in connection with contracts, for the present purpose we need not go further than the common case of noxoe deditio for wrongs.
But if the limit of liability here stands on the same ground as the noxoe deditio, confirms the explanation already given of the liability of the ship for wrongs done by it while out of the owner's hands, and conversely existence of that liability confirms the argument here.
I need not recur to the possible historical connection of either of these last forms of liability with the noxoe deditio, because, whether that origin is made out or not, the policy of the rule has been accepted as sound, and carried further in England within the last few years by the doctrine that a man who brings upon his land and keeps there anything likely to do mischief if it escape, must keep it in at his peril.
The language of the law of easements was built up out of similes drawn from persons at a time when the noxoe deditio was still familiar.