Pupilli
“wards under puberty”
group · 2 works · 3 mentions · 5 anchored passages
a group of pupils learning their letters · children...getting some knowledge of letters · impuberes · pupilli · pupillus · pupils · wards · wards under puberty
spoken of as
2 expressionsChildren learning letters“pupils”1 mention
Statesman (Greek)
We know that children, when they are just getting some knowledge of letters—
Pupils“pupilli”1 mention
Institutes of Roman Law (English)
At si pupillus idem fecerit, | quia non facit accipientis s—, nullam | contrahit obligationem;
in the texts
Institutes of Roman Law
Children below the age of puberty in the testator's power, for whom a special secondary heir may be named.
In which case, if the son fail to inherit, the substitute is the heir of the testator, but if the son die after inheriting and without attaining the age of puberty, the substitute is heir to the son.
To children below the age of puberty in the power of the testator, not only can such a substitute as we have described be appointed, that is, one who shall take the inheritance on their failure to inherit, but also one who, if after inheriting they die before attaining the age of puberty, shall be their heir;
But the substitution, wherein a man is named heir after the succession and death of the ward before reaching the age of puberty, is written separately on later tablets, tied with their own cords and sealed with their own wax, and it is prohibited in the prior tablets that the will should be opened in the lifetime of the son before he attains the age of puberty.
Statesman
Schoolchildren just learning their letters, used as a recurring illustration of how correct opinion in easy cases can be extended, by comparison, to harder ones.
We know that children, when they are just getting some knowledge of letters—
Suppose we were asked the following question about a group of pupils learning their letters:
Would not the easiest and best way to lead them to the letters which they do not yet know be this?