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Page vi
... designate nothing but a careless mode of writing the Greek letter ^, the first
letter of nuv8exlat, Pandects, " General Receivers ;" which was a common title of
the Greek miscellanies. Plin. Praef. ad Hist, Natur. 8 Gibbon's Rom. Hist. p. 37. 76
.
... designate nothing but a careless mode of writing the Greek letter ^, the first
letter of nuv8exlat, Pandects, " General Receivers ;" which was a common title of
the Greek miscellanies. Plin. Praef. ad Hist, Natur. 8 Gibbon's Rom. Hist. p. 37. 76
.
Page viii
Professional men who carefully peruse the reported cases, whether of the British
or the American courts, will find from the frequency of reference to the Justinian
Collections, that a competent knowledge of the general principles of the Civil Law
...
Professional men who carefully peruse the reported cases, whether of the British
or the American courts, will find from the frequency of reference to the Justinian
Collections, that a competent knowledge of the general principles of the Civil Law
...
Page ix
It thus happened, that the Romans for many years laboured under great
incertainty in respect to law in general ; for, from the commencement of the
consular state to the time of establishing the xn tables, they were not governed by
any regular ...
It thus happened, that the Romans for many years laboured under great
incertainty in respect to law in general ; for, from the commencement of the
consular state to the time of establishing the xn tables, they were not governed by
any regular ...
Page xi
... an order made by the senators assembled for that purpose ; but to constitute a
fair, properly so called, it was necessary, that it should first be proposed by some
magistrate of the senate, and afterwards be confirmed by the people in general.
... an order made by the senators assembled for that purpose ; but to constitute a
fair, properly so called, it was necessary, that it should first be proposed by some
magistrate of the senate, and afterwards be confirmed by the people in general.
Page xiv
The 13 edicts of Justinian and most of the novels were originally conceived in the
Greek tongue; and so great was the decline of the Roman language at
Constantinople within forty years after the death of this emperor, that his laws in
general ...
The 13 edicts of Justinian and most of the novels were originally conceived in the
Greek tongue; and so great was the decline of the Roman language at
Constantinople within forty years after the death of this emperor, that his laws in
general ...
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| Title | The Institutes of Justinian Issues 74140-74147 of 19th-century legal treatises |
| Author | A ". member of the New York Bar" |
| Editor | Thomas Cooper |
| Translated by | George Harris |
| Edition | 3 |
| Publisher | J. S. Voorhies, 1852 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 20 Aug 2007 |
| Length | 710 pages |
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