avocato in forza della legge napoleonica

English translation: regulated under Napoleonic law

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Italian term or phrase:avocato in forza della legge napoleonica
English translation:regulated under Napoleonic law
Entered by: Juliet Halewood

17:43 Jul 23, 2012
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Italian term or phrase: avocato in forza della legge napoleonica
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!
Juliet Halewood
Local time: 15:55
regulated under Napoleonic law
Explanation:
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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Isabelle Johnson
Italy
Local time: 15:55
Grading comment
Thanks Isabelle, I was reading it wrongly - it was a long night!
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Summary of answers provided
4 +1regulated under Napoleonic law
Isabelle Johnson
4self-referential under Napoleonic law, then Habsburgic, royal, and finally republican ones.
Michael Korovkin
3claimed by virtue of the authority....
bluenoric


  

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regulated under Napoleonic law


Explanation:
avocare is the verb here meaning to take on, assume so I think regulated under here - according to Napoleonic law first then Habsburg, etc

Isabelle Johnson
Italy
Local time: 15:55
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 80
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Thanks Isabelle, I was reading it wrongly - it was a long night!

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agree  Leanne Young
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self-referential under Napoleonic law, then Habsburgic, royal, and finally republican ones.


Explanation:
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Michael Korovkin
Italy
Local time: 15:55
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Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish, Native in RussianRussian
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claimed by virtue of the authority....


Explanation:
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.

bluenoric
Germany
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