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Page 60
... appointed a judex - in cases of private law there was usually but one judex — to try the case ; into whose hands he put the formula , in- structing him to investigate the matter , and if he found the facts to be so and so , as recited ...
... appointed a judex - in cases of private law there was usually but one judex — to try the case ; into whose hands he put the formula , in- structing him to investigate the matter , and if he found the facts to be so and so , as recited ...
Page 75
... appointed in 451 with full powers to draw up a written code . The next year this commission reported ten tables or chapters of laws , and added two more in the year following . The object proposed was not so much to prepare a new sys ...
... appointed in 451 with full powers to draw up a written code . The next year this commission reported ten tables or chapters of laws , and added two more in the year following . The object proposed was not so much to prepare a new sys ...
Page 80
... appointed judge , for investigation and decision . But in the early period of which we are now speaking , in the first centuries of the republic , the procedure was quite different . When the parties came before the prætor , the ...
... appointed judge , for investigation and decision . But in the early period of which we are now speaking , in the first centuries of the republic , the procedure was quite different . When the parties came before the prætor , the ...
Page 91
... appoint- ed in Rome , to administer law in such disputes . These peregrini ( or aliens ) could neither own any thing nor do any thing ex jure Quiritium ( by law of the Quiri- tes ) : from the whole jus civile , in the narrow sense of ...
... appoint- ed in Rome , to administer law in such disputes . These peregrini ( or aliens ) could neither own any thing nor do any thing ex jure Quiritium ( by law of the Quiri- tes ) : from the whole jus civile , in the narrow sense of ...
Page 94
... appointed heir , I will give him possession of the es- tate after the death of the testator , and will allow him to sue and to be sued as if he were an heir . " The prætor does not set himself against the Twelve Tables : 94 THE ROMAN LAW .
... appointed heir , I will give him possession of the es- tate after the death of the testator , and will allow him to sue and to be sued as if he were an heir . " The prætor does not set himself against the Twelve Tables : 94 THE ROMAN LAW .
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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!