Joannis Seldeni jurisconsulti opera omnia, tam edita quam inedtia : in tribus voluminibusCollegit ac recensuit; vitam auctoris, praefationes, & indices adjecit . Whence,vvhen they fpeak of che crimen majeftatis, theyufe= ^;^-Ae/.ov or ;^ ^ JCS^-^ooityc?^,, whichmay be incerpreted, ajudgment, or accufationtouching v:jhat is committed againft a thingfan-Elified orfacred. FoL. 221. No. ixj. And, howfoever thatnewapplication in ToLLio^s time vvas, the civiliansfince have referred the proper crimen majeftatisonly to the emperor. So, at this day, theydo by the imperials alone, as in Fr
Joannis Seldeni jurisconsulti opera omnia, tam edita quam inedtia : in tribus voluminibusCollegit ac recensuit; vitam auctoris, praefationes, & indices adjecit . Whence,vvhen they fpeak of che crimen majeftatis, theyufe= ^;^-Ae/.ov or ;^ ^ JCS^-^ooityc?^,, whichmay be incerpreted, ajudgment, or accufationtouching v:jhat is committed againft a thingfan-Elified orfacred. FoL. 221. No. ixj. And, howfoever thatnewapplication in ToLLio^s time vvas, the civiliansfince have referred the proper crimen majeftatisonly to the emperor. So, at this day, theydo by the imperials alone, as in France^ndi withus, in refped of our fovereigns only. But, bytheir Icaye, it is not eafily conceived how cri-men majeftatis muft not be refcrred to princesacknowledging indeed the emperors fuprema-cy, but v/ithal having all regal and imperialright in their dominions ; as divers of the Ger-man princes have ; although they abftain fromthis abftrad in their titles, as, of the dukes ofSaxony, Bavier, Savoy, Lorrain, Ferrara,FLorence, Mantua, and fuch, accounting thcm-felves as abfolute as any that have but the nameof duke, Bodin affirms ; and that rhey are ceL-. fitudinis 963 TIT LES of HONOU R. 964 Jitudinls •verbo coutenti, aut ferenitatis, quamJibi dux Venetorum tribuit. Fol. eod. No. 1x8. Biit, as the moft lcarncdCafaubon obferves, that niufl: be undcrftood ofthc grcater Roman dignitics befide thc that then firfl court-flattery began to ftile thedignitics of the emperors favouritcs, and fuch aswere of higher notc, with majcfty. For plainlyto the emperors, as you fec, it was nor beforeunufual. And, until this time of TrebeUitis, itmay be well affirmcd proper only to fupremacyamongft them. Fol. zzx. No. 1x9. And majejias eji magni-tudo quaedampopdi Rom. in ejus fotejiate l§Jure retinendo. But when thelum ofall thingswas transferred into the emperors from thepeople, the crimen majeftatis became chieflyagainft them and their ftate. Fol. eod. No. 130. But long before that,
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