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Definition of Capitularies
1. capitulary [n] - See also: capitulary
Lexicographical Neighbors of Capitularies
Literary usage of Capitularies
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"The capitularies or capitula of the bishops were compilations of ecclesiastical
laws, drawn as a rule from previous legislation, and proposed to the clergy ..."
2. A General Survey of Events, Sources, Persons and Movements in Continental by John Henry Wigmore (1912)
"Local Italian capitularies. — Italy was now an autonomous kingdom within the ...
The general capitularies, valid throughout the Empire, were valid also for ..."
3. The Spirit of Laws by Charles de Secondat Montesquieu (1793)
"... forts of capitularies. Some had relation to political government, ... as well
as of the Roman law, and of the capitularies, -HEN the German nations ..."
4. The Science of Jurisprudence: A Treatise in which the Growth of Positive Law by Hannis Taylor (1908)
"According to the French historians the last capitularies which bear the character of
... For an analysis of the contents of the capitularies, see Guizot, ..."