Assuming that Mr Barak and Ms Livni sign the whole agreement – which they have not yet done – their most important task will be to bring the ultra-Orthodox Shas party on board in order to obtain a majority in Parliament. Contracts, evidence. A sign of everything, a note or a token given without words. 2. Contracts are explicit or implied. The expression is manifested viva voce, or by writing; implicit is shown by silence, actions or signs. 3. Between all nations and at any time, certain signs were considered evidence of consent or disagreement; for example, the nod and handshake; 2 Bl. Com.
448; Six Toull. D. 33; Heinnec, Antiq. lib. 3, T. 23, 19; Silence and inaction, facts and signs are sometimes very strong evidence of fresh reflection when following a question. I ask you to lend me a hundred dollars without saying a word that you put your hand in your pocket and you give me the money. I go to the hotel and ask the owner if he can house me and take care of my safe; Without speaking, he takes it with my hands and sends it to his room. By this act, he will undoubtedly be responsible to me as Bailee.
When a tenancy agreement expires, the tenant remains in possession, without the landlord having the landlord; this provision can be interpreted as a sign of acceptance of the renewal of the lease. 13 Serg. Rawle, 60. 4, The scholarly author of the decline and fall of the Roman Empire, in his 44th chapter, notes: „Among the wild nations, the lack of letters is delivered imperfectly by the use of visible signs, which attract attention and perpetuate the memory of any public or private transaction. The jurisprudence of the early Romans showed scenes of a mime; the words were adapted to the gestures, and the slightest error or negligence in the forms of procedure was sufficient to nullify the substance of the most just claim. The community of matrimonial life was designated by the necessary elements of fire and water: and the divorced woman resigned, the heap of keys by the delivery from which she had been invested with the family government. The mission of a son or slave was accomplished by turning it over with a gentle blow on the cheek: a work was forbidden by throwing a stone; the prescription was interrupted by a broken branch; The fist is the symbol of a pledge or deposit; the right-hand man was the gift of faith and trust. The entrance to the covenants was a broken straw; Weights and scales were introduced in each payment, and the heir who accepted a will was sometimes forced to grab his fingers, throw away his clothes and jump and dance with real or concerned transport. When a citizen followed stolen goods into a neighbour`s house, he hid his nudity with a shroud and hid his own. Face with a mask or pelvis so that it does not meet the eyes of a virgin or matron. In a civil action, the complainant touched the ear of his witness, who grabbed his reluctant opponent and solemnly asked for the help of his fellow citizens. The two competitors took their hands, as if they were prepared to fight in the pretor`s court: he ordered them to produce the subject matter of the dispute; they went there, they came back with measured steps, and a ball of earth was thrown at his feet to represent the field for which they were fighting.
This occult science of the words and deeds of the law was the heir of popes and patricians. Like Chaldean astrologers, they told their clients about business days and tranquillity; these little important things carried with Numa`s religion; and after the publication of the Twelve Paintings, the Roman people were still enslaved by the ignorance of trials. The betrayal of some plebeian officers revealed in detail the profitable secret: in a more enlightened age, the litigants were ridiculed and observed; and the same antiquity that sanctified the practice, astonished the use and meaning of this primitive language. SIGN, measures.