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... later page , manifestly founded . The law was thus prepared to be co - extensive with the reach of Mahommedan , as it already was with that of Christian , influence . This consideration of the peculiar circumstances of Roman law at the ...
... later page , manifestly founded . The law was thus prepared to be co - extensive with the reach of Mahommedan , as it already was with that of Christian , influence . This consideration of the peculiar circumstances of Roman law at the ...
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... later in the eastern empire of the days of Justinian . The attempt to record the history of the substance of Roman law apart from the whole history of the govern- ment and the people , though often made , is an impossible and almost a ...
... later in the eastern empire of the days of Justinian . The attempt to record the history of the substance of Roman law apart from the whole history of the govern- ment and the people , though often made , is an impossible and almost a ...
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... or most of these had either become obsolete , were entirely transformed by time and later legis- lation , or had been positively annulled . This is PART I THE HISTORY OF THE FORMATION OF ROMAN LAW UP THE DEATH OF JUSTINIAN, A D 565.
... or most of these had either become obsolete , were entirely transformed by time and later legis- lation , or had been positively annulled . This is PART I THE HISTORY OF THE FORMATION OF ROMAN LAW UP THE DEATH OF JUSTINIAN, A D 565.
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... 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 . Thus the history of the XII . Tables exhibits , first , the fullness and ...
... 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 . Thus the history of the XII . Tables exhibits , first , the fullness and ...
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... later law , but for centuries they supplied the leading principles to which all doubtful questions were referred . True it is that many of the institutions and rules sanctioned by the Tables soon died out , and some were probably on the ...
... later law , but for centuries they supplied the leading principles to which all doubtful questions were referred . True it is that many of the institutions and rules sanctioned by the Tables soon died out , and some were probably on the ...
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Page 4 - and Paul, at the end of the second and the beginning of the third century, throw a clear light on the law of their day. The Gregorian
Page 409 - Ye may divorce your wives twice, and then either retain them with humanity, or dismiss them with kindness. . . . But if the husband divorce her a third time, she shall not be lawful for him again, until she marry another husband. But if he also divorce her, it shall be no crime in them if they return to each other.
Page 411 - And if a man's or woman's substance be inherited by a distant relation, and he or she have a brother or sister, each of them two shall have a sixth part of the estate; but if there be more than this number, they shall be equal sharers in a third part.
Page 429 - senate, all of them showing the same desire to make the pontifical a copy of the imperial office. The Pope is to inhabit the Lateran Palace, to wear the diadem, the collar, the purple cloak, to carry the sceptre, and to be attended by a body of chamberlains.
Page 410 - If ye fear that ye shall not act with equity towards orphans of the female sex, take in marriage of such other women as please you, two or three or four, and not more. . . . And
Page 451 - A king of England cannot, at his pleasure, make any alterations in the laws of the land, for the nature of his government is not only regal but political.
Page 410 - They who devour usury shall not arise from the dead, but as he ariseth whom Satan hath infected by a touch ; this shall happen to them because they say, Truly selling is but as usury: and yet God hath permitted selling and forbidden usury.
Page 430 - The notion which prevails throughout, that the chief of the religious society must be in every point conformed to his prototype, the chief of the civil, is the key to all the thoughts and acts of the Roman clergy; not less plainly seen in the details of
Page 451 - neither make any alteration or change in the laws of the realm, without the consent of the subjects, nor burden them against their wills with strange impositions.
Page 410 - But if it be a present bargain which ye transact between yourselves, it shall be no crime in you if ye write it not down. And take witnesses when ye sell one to another, and let no harm be done to the