fetial law
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fetial — /fee sheuhl/, adj. concerned with declarations of war and treaties of peace: fetial law. [1525 35; < L fetialis pertaining to a fetialis, a member of the Roman college of priests who acted as representatives in disputes with foreign nations] * *… … Universalium
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