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... seem likely to ensure for themselves a future greater and longer than their past . In When forced to select among rival illustrative topics , I have brought into relief all that has specially affected the primary elements of European ...
... seem likely to ensure for themselves a future greater and longer than their past . In When forced to select among rival illustrative topics , I have brought into relief all that has specially affected the primary elements of European ...
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... seem to need special justification . The urgent need of an English translation of the Digest to open out to students and legal practitioners belonging to English speaking popu- lations the enormous body of matchless case - law and ...
... seem to need special justification . The urgent need of an English translation of the Digest to open out to students and legal practitioners belonging to English speaking popu- lations the enormous body of matchless case - law and ...
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... seem them- selves to have been fully conscious of this , inasmuch as in the Digest they preserved on all occasions a mention of the authorities and ultimate sources from which the rules of law were , on each occasion , extracted ...
... seem them- selves to have been fully conscious of this , inasmuch as in the Digest they preserved on all occasions a mention of the authorities and ultimate sources from which the rules of law were , on each occasion , extracted ...
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... seems already to have become the case in Cicero's time , though even at a far later date a sentence of the tables is still occasionally quoted with the sort of de- ferential respect now paid in England to a few words in Magna Charta ...
... seems already to have become the case in Cicero's time , though even at a far later date a sentence of the tables is still occasionally quoted with the sort of de- ferential respect now paid in England to a few words in Magna Charta ...
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... seem to have been two main directions in which , apart from direct statutory legislation and the exercise of the Prętor's judicial functions ( to be described later on ) , Roman law progressed , as it were spontaneously , between the ...
... seem to have been two main directions in which , apart from direct statutory legislation and the exercise of the Prętor's judicial functions ( to be described later on ) , Roman law progressed , as it were spontaneously , between the ...
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