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Page 26
... caused by the Revolution seemed to call for a new code , but not much was done toward it until Napoleon became head of the state . The Code Napoleon , prepared in little more than two years , was proclaimed in 1804. It was followed in ...
... caused by the Revolution seemed to call for a new code , but not much was done toward it until Napoleon became head of the state . The Code Napoleon , prepared in little more than two years , was proclaimed in 1804. It was followed in ...
Page 44
... cause , belong in part to an alien jurisdiction . It must be said even that , by many practitioners and professors of the com- mon law , the civil law has been regarded with a feel- ing less favorable than mere indifference , with a ...
... cause , belong in part to an alien jurisdiction . It must be said even that , by many practitioners and professors of the com- mon law , the civil law has been regarded with a feel- ing less favorable than mere indifference , with a ...
Page 51
... cause before the judex ; the judex ( very different from our judges ) had to investigate and decide an issue presented to him in a formula from the prætor ; the prætor ( who held the middle step in a course of political honors ) had to ...
... cause before the judex ; the judex ( very different from our judges ) had to investigate and decide an issue presented to him in a formula from the prætor ; the prætor ( who held the middle step in a course of political honors ) had to ...
Page 55
... cause all further progress lies in the domain of media- val or modern history . It must begin with the for- mer , because for earlier times there are no sufficient materials for its construction . Of the Twelve Tables themselves we have ...
... cause all further progress lies in the domain of media- val or modern history . It must begin with the for- mer , because for earlier times there are no sufficient materials for its construction . Of the Twelve Tables themselves we have ...
Page 59
... causes of their clients . They were not judges , set to try causes , to hear the testi- mony offered by the parties , to listen to the speeches of the advocates , and to give their decision or verdict . In the forensic system of the ...
... causes of their clients . They were not judges , set to try causes , to hear the testi- mony offered by the parties , to listen to the speeches of the advocates , and to give their decision or verdict . In the forensic system of the ...
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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!