Praetor Formula as an Instrument of Conceptual Legal Thinking in Roman Private Law of the Pre-Classical and Classical Periods

The article discusses the formula, which is a means of fixing the claim in Roman private law of the pre -classical and classical periods.The nature and essence of the formula are quite little studied in the special legal literature.At the same time, most authors are limited to the general characteristic of the structure of the formulas, indicating

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Thinking-feeling with the Earth: Territorial Struggles and the Ontological Dimension of the Epistemologies of the South

The theoretical framework of Epistemologies of the South was proposed by Boaventura de Sousa Santos as a way to recognize other different manners to understand the World.This offers a much more relevant role to non-Western views about our existence.Under this framework the present article describes the concept of relational ontologies, which implie

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Molecular sexing and intersexual differences in the morphometry of the Hangnest Tody-Tyrant Hemitriccus nidipendulus (Passeriformes: Rhynchocyclidae)

Variation in the morphometry of individuals in a population may result from natural or sexual selection.In the present study we investigated morphometric differences between males and females of a bird species endemic to the Brazilian Atlantic Forest, the Hangnest Tody-Tyrant, Hemitriccus nidipendulus (Wied, 1831), with no apparent sexual dimorphis

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