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... fact , it being the private , not the public , law of Rome which has obtained currency in modern Europe . The Corpus Juris includes also an elementary text - book , the INSTITU- TIONES ( founded on the institutiones of Gaius , who ...
... fact , it being the private , not the public , law of Rome which has obtained currency in modern Europe . The Corpus Juris includes also an elementary text - book , the INSTITU- TIONES ( founded on the institutiones of Gaius , who ...
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... fact , the soul of the Corpus , which , with- out it , would seem almost a cadaver , the corpse or skeleton of itself . It is the characteristic element , which distinguishes this from other codes , ancient and modern , and gives it the ...
... fact , the soul of the Corpus , which , with- out it , would seem almost a cadaver , the corpse or skeleton of itself . It is the characteristic element , which distinguishes this from other codes , ancient and modern , and gives it the ...
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... fact which I wish to emphasize is this , that the Digest is composed of private law in a far larger proportion than the Codex . This is a fact which gives to the Digest something of the superior interest and importance which belong to ...
... fact which I wish to emphasize is this , that the Digest is composed of private law in a far larger proportion than the Codex . This is a fact which gives to the Digest something of the superior interest and importance which belong to ...
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... fact that , in Gaul , Spain , and Italy , during the early centuries of the middle ages , the great body of the people were subject to the Roman law , and that the books in which they had it were a little prior in date of compilation ...
... fact that , in Gaul , Spain , and Italy , during the early centuries of the middle ages , the great body of the people were subject to the Roman law , and that the books in which they had it were a little prior in date of compilation ...
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... facts to be so and so , as recited in the for- mula , then to condemn the accused party , but , if he did not find them so , to acquit him . With this formula as his guide , the judex proceeded to his work , to receive the evidence of ...
... facts to be so and so , as recited in the for- mula , then to condemn the accused party , but , if he did not find them so , to acquit him . With this formula as his guide , the judex proceeded to his work , to receive the evidence of ...
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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!