mixtum imperium
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Etymology[edit]
Literally “mixed” or “composite power”, “composite authority”. According to Ulpian, mixtum denotes a mixture of imperium and iūrisdictiō.
Noun[edit]
mixtum imperium n (genitive mixtī imperiī or mixtī imperī); second declension (law)
- (Ancient Rome) The delegable authority of a judge to execute penalties, primarily in civil cases.
- (Medieval Latin) The authority of lower magistrates, especially over private matters; a subsidiary form of authority dependent on the higher merum imperium.
Usage notes[edit]
In the Middle Ages, often found in the collocation merum et mixtum imperium to denote unconstrained independence or legislative sovereignty.
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References[edit]
- Mayer, Thomas F. (1995) “On the road to 1534: the occupation of Tournai and Henry VIII’s theory of sovereignty”, in Dale Hoak, editor, Tudor Political Culture, →ISBN, page 18
- Maiolo, Francesco (2007) Medieval Sovereignty: Marsilius of Padua and Bartolus of Saxoferrato, Eburon, →ISBN, pages 155–56
- Lee, Daniel (2016) Popular Sovereignty in Early Modern Constitutional Thought, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, pages 79–87