Potestas is a Latin word meaning power or faculty. It is an important concept in Roman Law. The idea of potestas originally referred to the power, through...

death (vitae necisque potestas). He was also obliged to observe the constraints imposed by Roman custom and law on all potestas. His decisions should...

"scientia potestas est") is a Latin aphorism meaning "knowledge is power", commonly attributed to Sir Francis Bacon. The expression "ipsa scientia potestas est"...

Summa potestas is a Latin phrase meaning "highest authority" or "totality of power". It refers to the final authority of power in government. For example...

Allia Potestas was a freedwoman from the Roman town of Perugia who lived sometime during the 1st–4th centuries AD. She is known only through her epitaph...

Because they were not technically magistrates, and thus possessed no maior potestas, they relied on their sacrosanctity to obstruct actions unfavourable to...

currently in use throughout Italy). The term derives from the Latin word potestas ('power'). There is a similar derivation for the Arabic term سلطان sulṭān...

and the "royal power" (regalis potestas). These two principles—auctoritas lending justification to potestas, and potestas providing the executive strength...

Rome was primarily a legal procedure for transferring paternal power (potestas) to ensure succession in the male line within Roman patriarchal society...

(auctoritas patrum) was connected to auctoritas—not to be confused with potestas or imperium, which were held by the magistrates or the people.[citation...

received subsequent grants of powers, such as the granting of tribunicia potestas in 23 BC, these were only ratifications of the powers he already possessed...

preface to Fabulae by Gaius Julius Hyginus, Kratos is given the Roman name Potestas. Kratos and his siblings are first mentioned in the Theogony, which was...

Delegata potestas non potest delegari is a principle in constitutional and administrative law that means in Latin that "no delegated powers can be further...

faith in God. In The Etymologies of Isidore of Seville, the Powers (lat. potestas (f), pl. potestates) (Greek: ἐξουσίαι) are given their name because they...

Funerary inscription for the freedwoman Allia Potestas, notable for its use of literary elegiacs in her praise (CIL VI 037965)...

brother Ed. He is also part of the rock duo Magnets & Ghosts alongside Ryan Potesta. With Collective Soul Hints, Allegations, and Things Left Unsaid (1994)...

This is a list of characters in the Artemis Fowl novel series by Eoin Colfer. Contents:  Top 0–9 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z List...

settlement, Augustus was also granted the power of a tribune (tribunicia potestas) for life, though not the official title of tribune. For some years, Augustus...

a Dutch jurist and scholar, is an iusnaturalist author, who maintained that rights are innate potestas of the human being and do not arise out of law....

household, the pater familias, exercised autocratic authority through patria potestas including his wife, his children and his slaves. Such rights persisted...

"Vitae Necisque Potestas," Historia 48:2 (1999), p. 208. Westbrook, "Vitae Necisque Potestas," pp. 203–204. Westbrook, "Vitae Necisque Potestas," p. 205. ‘The...

praetura (praetorship), are described by the adjective itself: the praetoria potestas (praetorian power), the praetorium imperium (praetorian authority), and...

if both the husband and wife were alieni iuris (persons under patria potestas; that is, under the power of their respective patres familias), the marriage...

having married her mother with conubium, Augustus had Patria Potestas over her. Patria Potestas lasted until the pater familias, Augustus, either died or...

pater familias (father of the family), who held lawful authority (patria potestas, "father's power") over wives, sons, daughters, and slaves of the household...

by the United States administration. Agamben shows that auctoritas and potestas are clearly distinct – although they form together a binary system". He...

was already Augustus and trib. pot. II on 7 January 210. The tribunicia potestas was renewed every 10 December. Kienast, Dietmar (2017) [1990]. Römische...

and were each vested with a degree of power called "major powers" (maior potestas). Dictators had more "major powers" than any other magistrate, and after...

familias, who was lawfully entitled to exercise complete authority (patria potestas) over family property and all family members. Citizenship offered legal...

that the remade Frankish monarchy would provide a deferential power base (potestas) in the creation of a new world order, centred on the Pope. Upon Pepin's...