The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 20 of 55: 1621-1624; Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the Catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century.
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The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 20 of 55: 1621-1624; Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the Catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century.
Demarcation line of Alexander VI; Missions -- Philippines; Philippines -- Discovery and exploration; Philippines -- History -- Sources
[34] _No ymperio, ni mero, ni misto. Imperio mero_ [_i.e.,_ pure
authority], the authority that resides in the sovereign, and by
his appointment in certain magistrates, to impose penalties on the
guilty, with the trying of the cause; _imperio mixto_ [_i.e._, mixed
authority], the authority that belongs to judges to decide civil cases,
and to carry their sentences into effect. See _Novísimo Diccionario
de la Lengua Cast_. (Paris, 1897).
[35] ff = Digest (ff was a Lombard form of D), and the reference is to
Justinian's _Digest_, book 48, tit. 19 (_de poenis_) fragment 27, which
begins "_Divi fratres_." The last paragraph of this fragment empowers
the Roman governor (_præses_) to arrest and imprison any of the leading
citizens (_principales_) who have committed felonies. It is cited as
a precedent in favor of the Spanish president.--_Munroe Smith_.
[36] At this point the following citation occurs in the margin: _ultra
plures cum Cobb lib. 3, variar, c. 13, nº 6. Bartol alias ex conducto
et item cumquidam ff locat e inl c et divus ff de uauj e ex trah i
egruti p. totum maxime n° 15 luias De penia in l i c de principal
lib. 12_. Much of this is unintelligible and there have evidently
been many errors in transcription due to the illegibility of the
original MS. The following conjectures and information, however,
clear up certain portions of the passage.
Mr. FitzGerald conjectures _ultra plures_ to be "several [authors]
besides." _Cobb._ is read _Codieibus_ by Father José Algué, S.J.
_Ex conducto et item cumquidam ff locat_. The reference is to
Justinian's Digest, book 19, tit. 2 (_locati conducti_), fr. 15, which
begins "_ex conducto_" and especially to the passage in the middle of
fr. 15 (§ 3 of modern editions) which begins "_cum quidam_." It reads:
"When a certain person alleged a conflagration on the (leased) land
and desired a remission (of the rent), the following rescript is sent
to him: 'If you have tilled the soil, relief may not undeservedly be
given you on account of the accident of a sudden conflagration.'" The
transcription of the following reference to the Digest: _Divus
ff_: is too hopelessly muddled to identify. Before these is a
reference to Bartolus, and at the end a reference possibly to Cujas
(Cujacius). Bartolus was the leading civilian of the fourteenth
century; Cujacius of the sixteenth.--_Munroe Smith_.
_In l_ is for _in loco_, and _l i c_ for _loco ibi citato_.--_Jose
Algue_, S.J.
[37] Chocolate was at that time supplied to the Philippines from Nueva
España; but the cultivation of the cacao-tree (_Theobroma cacao_),
of which chocolate is a product, was introduced into the islands
about 1665 by the governor Diego Salcedo, at the instance of the
Jesuit Juan de Avila, according to Delgado (_Hist. de Filipinas_,
p. 535). Blanco says (_Flora,_ p. 420), citing Gaspar de San Agustin,
that this honor belongs to a pilot named Pedro Brabo de Lagunas,
who brought cacao plants to Manila in 1670.
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