The code made ecclesiastical affairs a matter of state jurisdiction; it gave legal expression to the practice of serfdom; and, in an important new article, it enumerated crimes "of word and deed" against the "Sovereign"—by which were to be understood the state and all its agents.
If the devotee wishes to please him, God induces him, with infallible justice and loving regard, to intentions and effort to perform good deeds by which the devotee will attain him; if not, God keeps him from that goal.
The inscription dates from the third century of our era: For Tanonius Marcellinus, a most distinguished man of the consular rank at Campania and a most worthy patron as well, because of the good deeds by which he rescued the population from endless boredom, the entire people judges that this inscription should be recorded.
In the late third century, the Roman city of Beneventum inscribed the following message of thanks: For Tanonius Marcellinus, a most distinguished man of the consular rank and a most worthy patron as well, because of the good deeds by which he rescued the population [of Beneventum] from endless boredom, the entire people [of this city] judges that this inscription should be recorded.
The marvelous deeds by which Raleigh and his associates — a group of brilliant soldiers, sailors, adventurers, and scholars — laid the foundation of England's vast colonial empire, found their inspiration in loyalty to the Crown and country, love of liberty, and devotion to religion.
Certain reforms brought out were designed to plug various holes, such as deeds of covenant by which wealthy taxpayers have been able to ease some of the burden, and he bore down sharply on businessmen's cars & expense-account entertaining.
148, related to the imposition of a tax on each deed, instrument, or writing by which any realty is sold, assigned, transferred, or otherwise conveyed.
Instead, his name became known not only because of the power he demonstrates in word and deed, but the authority by which it was demonstrated.
The fiction might be what matters, says Gordimer, but it is the deeds of her life by which she wants to be judged.
"Just because a buyer gets a deed to a property doesn't mean that the deed was valid," Mr. Gordon said, explaining that since a deed is just a document by which the right of ownership in land is transferred, it can only transfer ownership rights possessed by the person who made the deed.
