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Wednesday, January 10, 2024
Liebs
In Renzo Tosi, Dictionnaire des sentences latines et grecques, tr. Rebecca Lenoir (Grenoble: Jérôme Millon, 2010), a reference work abbreviated "Liebs" is often cited, e.g. on p. 708, § 949 (Audiatur et altera pars). But there is no entry for Liebs in the bibliography. From Tosi's Italian original I find that Liebs is
Detlef Liebs, Lateinische Rechtsregeln und Rechtssprichwörter, available in many editions, e.g., München: C.H. Beck, 2007.