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Page vii
... rule , somewhat of the general , systematic and permanent to the world before them . A terrible and often tyrannical power , which commits a thousand crimes , a thousand errors , for human weakness attends it ; a power nevertheless ...
... rule , somewhat of the general , systematic and permanent to the world before them . A terrible and often tyrannical power , which commits a thousand crimes , a thousand errors , for human weakness attends it ; a power nevertheless ...
Page viii
... rules and precepts . Sir Henry Maine has pointed out the remarkable influence of English Law as a system , upon native usage and native life in India ' . He has shown how primitive customary law has been affected in that quarter of the ...
... rules and precepts . Sir Henry Maine has pointed out the remarkable influence of English Law as a system , upon native usage and native life in India ' . He has shown how primitive customary law has been affected in that quarter of the ...
Page 11
... rule of custom is established by an indeterminate body , viz . the bulk of a society : and in the second place a law proper has a definite sanction , so that he who disregards it knows what he may expect to suffer , whereas a rule of ...
... rule of custom is established by an indeterminate body , viz . the bulk of a society : and in the second place a law proper has a definite sanction , so that he who disregards it knows what he may expect to suffer , whereas a rule of ...
Page 20
... rule which a constitution of ours has established in a spirit of humanity hitherto unknown , and that too not only in the case of an insolvent master but universally , so that from the mere state- ment of the slave's institution a gift ...
... rule which a constitution of ours has established in a spirit of humanity hitherto unknown , and that too not only in the case of an insolvent master but universally , so that from the mere state- ment of the slave's institution a gift ...
Page 28
... rules hold so universally , that although they enter into the relation of ascendants and descendants by adoption , they cannot be united in marriage ; and even after the adoption has been dissolved , the same rule 1 C. 5. 4. 25 . 2 The ...
... rules hold so universally , that although they enter into the relation of ascendants and descendants by adoption , they cannot be united in marriage ; and even after the adoption has been dissolved , the same rule 1 C. 5. 4. 25 . 2 The ...
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Page 459 - Conubium habent cives Romani cum civibus Romanis ; cum Latinis autem et peregrinis ita, si concessum sit ; cum servis nullum est conubium.
Page 86 - Et post multas Sabinianorum et Proculianorum ambiguitates placuit media sententia existimantium, si ea species ad materiam reduci possit, eum videri dominum esse, qui materiae dominus fuerat, si non possit reduci, eum potius intellegi dominum qui fecerit: ut ecce vas conflatum potest ad rudem massam...