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...

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...

"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...

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...

(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...

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

Nihus, Barthold (1642). Epigrammata disticha. Johannes Kinckius. aurum potestas est gold is power Motto of the fictional Fowl Family in the Artemis Fowl...

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...

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

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

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...

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...

between alieni iuris (persons under patria potestas) and sui iuris (persons autonomous of patria potestas, who could only be the pater familias himself)...

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...

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...

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

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...

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)...

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

"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...

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....

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

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

the Latin Bible, but it appears, in the form quia tuum est regnum, et potestas, et gloria, in saecula, in the Mass of the Roman Rite, as revised in 1969...

a military or governmental entity. It is distinct from auctoritas and potestas, different and generally inferior types of power in the Roman Republic...