The chief  executive officers of  the Roman republic who possessed imperium (the right to command) were the consuls and praetors.  

In 23 b.c., the Roman emperor was given the power of  a tribune without actually holding the office itself; this power enabled him to propose laws and veto any item of  public business. Although officials continued to be elected, his authority ensured that his candidates usually won. This situation caused participation in elections to decline. Consequently, the popular assemblies, shorn of  any real role in elections  and  increasingly  overshadowed  by  the  senate’s  decrees,  gradually declined in importance.

The  Roman    came  to  hold  an  especially  important  position  in  the  republic.  This body, also known as the council  of   elders,  was  a  select  group  of   about  three  hundred  men  who  served  for  life.  It was not a legislative body and could only advise the magistrates. The advice of  this body was not taken lightly, how-ever, and by the third century B.C. had virtually the force of  law. 

The  ___________________________  class in Rome consisted of  families who were descended from the original senators appointed during the period of  the kings. Their  initial  prominence  was  probably  due  to  their  wealth  as  great  landowners.  Thus,  they constituted  an  aristocratic  governing  class.  They  alone  could  be  consuls,  other  magistrates,  and  senators. 

The  greatest  historian  of   the  silver  age of Latin literature  was `Tacitus`.  His  main  works  included  the  Annals and  the  Histories, which  presented  a  narrative  account  of   Roman  history  from  the  reign  of   Tiberius  through  the  assassination  of   Domitian  in  96 a.d.

Which of the following tools of public land use control represents the earliest method of police power to regulate land use? (Hint: Standards for energy efficiency and sustainability are the most recent trends in the application of this land use control.)

With an adjustable-rate mortgage (ARM), the risk of unanticipated increases in the level of interest rates is mostly be borne by:

A special contract in which the borrower pledges the mortgaged property as security to the lender is commonly referred to as the:

Recording documents in the public records informs anyone who may have a potential interest in a property of both the owner and lender. In so doing, it provides what is commonly referred to as ____________ of an interest in real property.

Suppose that you just sold a property that has annual property taxes of $2,427.22. If the closing occurred on March 13th, calculate your share (Seller’s share) of the total property taxes. For this problem, assume that we are dealing with a 365-day calendar year.