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... course . The object of the ensuing account of the law is to give an exact and comprehensive exhibition of all the legal rules actually in force in Justinian's time , for the use of those who have no opportunity nor desire to study their ...
... course . The object of the ensuing account of the law is to give an exact and comprehensive exhibition of all the legal rules actually in force in Justinian's time , for the use of those who have no opportunity nor desire to study their ...
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... course has seemed to be only to add a reference when it is especially desirable for the reader to study the whole passage in the original , or when some statement is made which is so unexpected as to seem to need special justification ...
... course has seemed to be only to add a reference when it is especially desirable for the reader to study the whole passage in the original , or when some statement is made which is so unexpected as to seem to need special justification ...
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... course of recurring to the works of the older writers , who commented upon the law as it was in their day , —that is , at a date usually at least three hundred years earlier than the time of the composition of the Digest , - many ...
... course of recurring to the works of the older writers , who commented upon the law as it was in their day , —that is , at a date usually at least three hundred years earlier than the time of the composition of the Digest , - many ...
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... course in turning their enormous mass of materials to account in the special way they did . It may be ob- jected that they have preserved too much of what was out of use , and would have acted more wisely if they had saved the time and ...
... course in turning their enormous mass of materials to account in the special way they did . It may be ob- jected that they have preserved too much of what was out of use , and would have acted more wisely if they had saved the time and ...
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An Aid to the Study of Scientific and Comparative Jurisprudence Sheldon Amos. the course of some thousand years , reached a condition of maturity , which enabled it to divest itself of most of what was narrowly and exclusively Roman ...
An Aid to the Study of Scientific and Comparative Jurisprudence Sheldon Amos. the course of some thousand years , reached a condition of maturity , which enabled it to divest itself of most of what was narrowly and exclusively Roman ...
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