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... five years ' curriculum . In the courts it was to supersede all earlier authorities . No abbreviations were to be used in copying it . No commentaries were to be written on it ( only transla- tions into Greek , and summaries of its ...
... five years ' curriculum . In the courts it was to supersede all earlier authorities . No abbreviations were to be used in copying it . No commentaries were to be written on it ( only transla- tions into Greek , and summaries of its ...
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... from the decemviral code of the Twelve Tables , four centuries and a half before Christ , to the compilation of the Corpus Juris in the reign of the Emperor Justinian , more than five centuries after Christ . THE CORPUS JURIS CIVILIS . 3.
... from the decemviral code of the Twelve Tables , four centuries and a half before Christ , to the compilation of the Corpus Juris in the reign of the Emperor Justinian , more than five centuries after Christ . THE CORPUS JURIS CIVILIS . 3.
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In Twelve Academical Lectures James Hadley. Emperor Justinian , more than five centuries after Christ . Through this long period of nearly a thousand years , the Roman law was in a constant process of change and development . The ...
In Twelve Academical Lectures James Hadley. Emperor Justinian , more than five centuries after Christ . Through this long period of nearly a thousand years , the Roman law was in a constant process of change and development . The ...
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... five , in the year 527. A few months later , in the year 528 , he entered upon the work of collecting , re- vising , and systematizing , the whole body of the Roman law . This work , under the guidance of Tribonian , was divided into ...
... five , in the year 527. A few months later , in the year 528 , he entered upon the work of collecting , re- vising , and systematizing , the whole body of the Roman law . This work , under the guidance of Tribonian , was divided into ...
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... five centuries of imperial dominion must have been very large . Three or four collections had already been made , in which the most important constitutions were selected from the mass , presented in a condensed form , and arranged ...
... five centuries of imperial dominion must have been very large . Three or four collections had already been made , in which the most important constitutions were selected from the mass , presented in a condensed form , and arranged ...
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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!