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... condition of the law . To guide the compilers in making the required alterations , a series of imperial ordinances was put forth , under the name of decisiones , making out the precise features of the new law , in dis- tinction from the ...
... condition of the law . To guide the compilers in making the required alterations , a series of imperial ordinances was put forth , under the name of decisiones , making out the precise features of the new law , in dis- tinction from the ...
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... condition from which so much pains had been taken to raise it . Perhaps , also , he may have feared that some commentary might arise which would eclipse the original ; as , in the literature of English law , Coke upon Littleton is much ...
... condition from which so much pains had been taken to raise it . Perhaps , also , he may have feared that some commentary might arise which would eclipse the original ; as , in the literature of English law , Coke upon Littleton is much ...
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... 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 lecture . LECTURE II . THE ROMAN LAW SINCE JUSTINIAN . THE 24 THE ROMAN LAW .
... 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 lecture . LECTURE II . THE ROMAN LAW SINCE JUSTINIAN . THE 24 THE ROMAN LAW .
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... condition of Britain was essentially different . That remote dependency of the empire , among the last to be gained , among the first to be abandoned , had never been but very partially Romanized . And its conquest by the Germanic ...
... condition of Britain was essentially different . That remote dependency of the empire , among the last to be gained , among the first to be abandoned , had never been but very partially Romanized . And its conquest by the Germanic ...
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... and construct it anew with exclusive reference to the actual conditions of the present time . this completely is a simple impossibility . But to do The new He code for which such persons are sighing - the THE ROMAN LAW BEFORE JUSTINIAN .
... and construct it anew with exclusive reference to the actual conditions of the present time . this completely is a simple impossibility . But to do The new He code for which such persons are sighing - the THE ROMAN LAW BEFORE JUSTINIAN .
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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!