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I am studying Bartolus of Saxoferrato's "On The Tyrant", a medieval law text. He says in his text: "[...] one is called a manifest tyrant in a city by defect of title". (http://www.individual.utoronto.ca/jwrobinson/translations/bartolus_de-tyranno.pdf)
Any idea of what "defect of title" might mean? English is not my first language; I haven't had any trouble reading this work, but I don't understand this specific term's meaning.
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And then the footnote links to page 8 where there is a whole chapter exploring that question.
"defect of title" means that the tyrant's title (his claim to rulership, e.g. "King of city X", or "rightfully elected Major of city X") is defective, i.e. somehow damaged.
So, is everyone who has no flawless justification of calling himself ruler of the city automatically a tyrant?
But seriously, read chapter VI on page 8, he lays out the complete argument in like the first paragraph.
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>"defect of title" means that the tyrant's title (his claim to rulership, e.g. "King of city X", or "rightfully elected Major of city X") is defective, i.e. somehow damaged.
That makes sense, thanks for the help, anon
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