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... for several centuries confined to some parts and cities of Italy . THE subject , on which I am to give you a few lec- tures , is the Civil Law - the Roman Law - its History and System . My desire , of course , is 2 THE ROMAN LAW .
... for several centuries confined to some parts and cities of Italy . THE subject , on which I am to give you a few lec- tures , is the Civil Law - the Roman Law - its History and System . My desire , of course , is 2 THE ROMAN LAW .
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... Italy , the Vandals in North- ern Africa . Justinian , afterward , by the arms of his great generals , Belisarius and Narses , crushed the power of the Vandals and the Ostrogoths , and brought Africa and Italy into a precarious and ...
... Italy , the Vandals in North- ern Africa . Justinian , afterward , by the arms of his great generals , Belisarius and Narses , crushed the power of the Vandals and the Ostrogoths , and brought Africa and Italy into a precarious and ...
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... Italy or the prov- inces . All these various utterances are included in the term constitutiones ; and it is hardly necessary to say that , although professing to come from the person of the emperor , they were actually composed by ...
... Italy or the prov- inces . All these various utterances are included in the term constitutiones ; and it is hardly necessary to say that , although professing to come from the person of the emperor , they were actually composed by ...
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... Italy , the Italian jurists of the famous school of Bologna supported the imperial pretensions with texts and rules drawn from the storehouse of the Corpus Juris . They regarded , practically at least , its public and private law as ...
... Italy , the Italian jurists of the famous school of Bologna supported the imperial pretensions with texts and rules drawn from the storehouse of the Corpus Juris . They regarded , practically at least , its public and private law as ...
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... Italy ; and here , in some parts and cities of the peninsula , it still enjoyed an obscure and precarious influence . How it emerged from this condition to one of world - wide note and com- manding authority , will appear in the next ...
... Italy ; and here , in some parts and cities of the peninsula , it still enjoyed an obscure and precarious influence . How it emerged from this condition to one of world - wide note and com- manding authority , will appear in the next ...
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Page 49 - ... conqueror of Italy, humbler of Germany, terror of the North — saw him account all his matchless victories poor compared with the triumph you are now in a condition to win — saw him contemn the fickleness of Fortune, while, in despite of her, he could pronounce his memorable boast, " I shall go down to posterity with the Code in my hand!