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... Justinian in the codification which is familiar to us under the name of the Corpus juris civilis . Accordingly it was the text of this codification which became the object of the exegesis of the jurists when the study of Roman law was ...
... Justinian in the codification which is familiar to us under the name of the Corpus juris civilis . Accordingly it was the text of this codification which became the object of the exegesis of the jurists when the study of Roman law was ...
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... Justinian's compilation . They were neither desirous nor capable of setting forth the subject - matter of the law in a systematic form of their own independent of that of Justinian . Thus the complete absence of the synthe- tical ...
... Justinian's compilation . They were neither desirous nor capable of setting forth the subject - matter of the law in a systematic form of their own independent of that of Justinian . Thus the complete absence of the synthe- tical ...
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... Justinian from their own time , no one would ever have thought of introducing it as the law of the land . And supposing that any such attempt had been made , it would have been met in actual life by a resistance impossible to overcome ...
... Justinian from their own time , no one would ever have thought of introducing it as the law of the land . And supposing that any such attempt had been made , it would have been met in actual life by a resistance impossible to overcome ...
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... Justinian . These additions are of course very valuable . Yet they cannot do away with the disadvantages necessarily attaching to the prevalence of the commenting element in an exposition . The knowledge upon the subject is too much ...
... Justinian . These additions are of course very valuable . Yet they cannot do away with the disadvantages necessarily attaching to the prevalence of the commenting element in an exposition . The knowledge upon the subject is too much ...
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... Justinian , the author of the Corpus juris civilis ( sixth century A. D. ) . It shows us how Roman law , growing from small beginnings , took gradual possession of the whole world . It shows us , further , how Roman law , in ...
... Justinian , the author of the Corpus juris civilis ( sixth century A. D. ) . It shows us how Roman law , growing from small beginnings , took gradual possession of the whole world . It shows us , further , how Roman law , in ...
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acquired action agnatic autem bona fide bonorum possessio capacity capitis deminutio causa century civil law claim Code condemnatio condemned contract Corpus juris civilis correal creditor debt debtor decemviri defendant Digest effect ejus emperor entitled exceptio doli fact fidei fiduciae filiusfamilias formal formula formulary procedure Gajus German glossators heir inheritance Institutes intentio ipso jure judex judicial judicium jure cessio jurisprudence juristic act juristic person jus civile jus gentium Justinian leges legis actio liability litis contestatio magistrate mancipatio manus injectio means merely nexum obligation owner ownership Pandects Papinian parties patria potestas person plaintiff possession potest praetor praetorian edict praetorian law principle private law proceedings purpose quae quod Röm Roman citizen Roman law sense servitude slave so-called stipulatio stricti juris sunt thing traditio transaction Twelve Tables ULPIAN usucapio usus words
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Page 58 - Jus praetorium est quod praetores introduxerunt adjuvandi vel supplendi vel corrigendi juris civilis gratia propter utilitatem publicam.
Page 48 - ... quod vero naturalis ratio inter omnes homines constituit, id apud omnes populos peraeque custoditur, vocaturque ius gentium, quasi quo iure omnes gentes utuntur.
Page xxx - That an English writer of the time of Henry III. should have been able to put off on his countrymen as a compendium of pure English law a treatise of which the entire form and a third of the contents were directly borrowed from the Corpus Juris...
Page 344 - Est etiam alia species imaginariae solutionis per aes et libram ; quod et ipsum genus certis in causis receptum est, veluti si quid eo nomine debeatur quod per aes et libram gestum sit, sive quid ex judicati causa debeatur.
Page 358 - Legal' must be here understood as equivalent to ' by virtue of a law '. 1. Sunt autem adgnati per virilis sexus cognationem conjunct!, quasi a patre cognati, veluti frater eodem patre natus, fratris filius neposve ex eo, item patruus et patrui filius neposve ex eo. At qui per feminini sexus personas cognatione junguntur, non sunt adgnati, sed alias natural!
Page 311 - Cum autem emptio et venditio contracta sit (quod effici diximus, simulatque de pretio convenerit, cum sine scriptura res agitur), periculum rei venditae statim ad emptorem pertinet, tametsi adhuc ea res emptori tradita non sit.
Page 19 - Contra legem facit, qui id facit quod lex prohibet, in fraudem vero, qui salvis verbis legis sententiam eius circumvenit.
Page 16 - Publicum ius est quod ad statum rei Romanae spectat, privatum quod ad singulorum utilitatem: sunt enim quaedam publice utilia, quaedam privatim.
Page 235 - Traditio nihil amplius transferre debet vel potest ad eum, qui accipit, quam est apud eum, qui tradit. Si igitur quis dominium in fundo habuit, id tradendo transfert, si non habuit, ad eum qui accipit, nihil transfert.
Page 142 - Is cui bonis interdictum est stipulando sibi adquirit, tradere vero non potest vel promittendo obligari : et ideo nee fidejussor pro eo intervenire poterit, sicut nee pro furioso. III. All persons not specified in classes (i) and (ii) have full legal capacity for all juristic acts, including therefore the capacity to incur contractual liabilities of their own. According to Roman law, then, minors who are above the age of puberty, but under twenty§ 44.