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... practices in procedure , and rules of law are alluded to as if they were in full force . In Justinian's day , and especially as his own legislation pro- gressed by force of the very impulse which originated the Digest itself , many or ...
... practices in procedure , and rules of law are alluded to as if they were in full force . In Justinian's day , and especially as his own legislation pro- gressed by force of the very impulse which originated the Digest itself , many or ...
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... practice , relating to the several sorts of interdicts contained in the forty - third book of the Digest , and mostly extracted from works , in the shape of commentaries by Ulpian and Paul , written in the beginning of the third century ...
... practice , relating to the several sorts of interdicts contained in the forty - third book of the Digest , and mostly extracted from works , in the shape of commentaries by Ulpian and Paul , written in the beginning of the third century ...
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... practice and comparing the answers , succeeded in preparing and publishing a work in which all that part of the law acquaintance with which was hitherto confined to a few was laid open to all . This work was called the " Jus Flavianum ...
... practice and comparing the answers , succeeded in preparing and publishing a work in which all that part of the law acquaintance with which was hitherto confined to a few was laid open to all . This work was called the " Jus Flavianum ...
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... practice of the emperors to summon to their councils leading persons in the State , specially qualified by their studies and attain- ments to advise on the particular business in hand . This council ( concilium ) , so irregularly Suet ...
... practice of the emperors to summon to their councils leading persons in the State , specially qualified by their studies and attain- ments to advise on the particular business in hand . This council ( concilium ) , so irregularly Suet ...
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... by the masters ; some as " questions ; " some as " epitomes ; " some as books of practice ( actionum ) ; some as " rules ; " many as 66 39 " " 39 digests ; some as " disputations ; THE GROWTH OF THE UNWRITTEN LAW . 29.
... by the masters ; some as " questions ; " some as " epitomes ; " some as books of practice ( actionum ) ; some as " rules ; " many as 66 39 " " 39 digests ; some as " disputations ; THE GROWTH OF THE UNWRITTEN LAW . 29.
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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 263 - 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 265 - 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 283 - 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 264 - 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 305 - 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 264 - 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 284 - 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 305 - 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 264 - 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