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Italian term or phrase:
avocato in forza della legge napoleonica
English translation:
regulated under Napoleonic law
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Juliet Halewood (X)
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Italian term
Juliet Halewood (X)
avocato in forza della legge napoleonica
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history of the postal service;
Il loro monopolio assoluto i postali lo hanno difeso con le unghie e con i denti, ... ma come altrove anche in Val Brembana prima dei postini agivano i liberi corrieri locali, da e per Bergamo, ed essi movimentavano merci, beni di prima necessità e appunto lettere. Un tipo di traffico, quello epistolare, avocato in forza della legge napoleonica, poi asburgica, poi regia e infine repubblicana.
I'm having difficulty with this sentence, particularly as there seems to be no verb.
Thanks!
Il loro monopolio assoluto i postali lo hanno difeso con le unghie e con i denti, ... ma come altrove anche in Val Brembana prima dei postini agivano i liberi corrieri locali, da e per Bergamo, ed essi movimentavano merci, beni di prima necessità e appunto lettere. Un tipo di traffico, quello epistolare, avocato in forza della legge napoleonica, poi asburgica, poi regia e infine repubblicana.
I'm having difficulty with this sentence, particularly as there seems to be no verb.
Thanks!
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Isabelle Johnson
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regulated under Napoleonic law
avocare is the verb here meaning to take on, assume so I think regulated under here - according to Napoleonic law first then Habsburg, etc
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Comment: "Thanks Isabelle, I was reading it wrongly - it was a long night!"
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Michael Korovkin
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self-referential under Napoleonic law, then Habsburgic, royal, and finally republican ones.
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claimed by virtue of the authority....
Isabelle´s suggestion is fine, but you have to consider the whole text: avocato refers to the **liberi corrieri locali**, they claimed the right of delivering letters, and not only parcels, under first the Napoleonic law, then the Hapsburgic [...] against the official postmen.
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