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... force with the altered circumstances and ad- vanced civilization of more recent times . Hence , it has been received as fundamental law by some of the most enlightened and civilized nations of modern Eu- rope . But no modern state has ...
... force with the altered circumstances and ad- vanced civilization of more recent times . Hence , it has been received as fundamental law by some of the most enlightened and civilized nations of modern Eu- rope . But no modern state has ...
Page 23
... force of old tradition , as the proper official language of the empire . The actual use of Greek as the pre- vailing language of the Novels distinguishes this from the preceding portions of the Corpus Juris . In the Codex the large ...
... force of old tradition , as the proper official language of the empire . The actual use of Greek as the pre- vailing language of the Novels distinguishes this from the preceding portions of the Corpus Juris . In the Codex the large ...
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... force of political and military ascendency , the inferior had no chance of maintaining itself . But when the political and military ascendency is on one side , and the superior civilization on the other , the contest is more evenly ...
... force of political and military ascendency , the inferior had no chance of maintaining itself . But when the political and military ascendency is on one side , and the superior civilization on the other , the contest is more evenly ...
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... force of superior numbers , if not of superior civilization , must exert an immense influ- ence on political and social relations . While in the continental provinces the dominant races gradually lost their old Germanic idioms , the ...
... force of superior numbers , if not of superior civilization , must exert an immense influ- ence on political and social relations . While in the continental provinces the dominant races gradually lost their old Germanic idioms , the ...
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... force , because they were inconsistent either with legislative enactments or with customs so long established and so deeply rooted as to have the force of law . But , when we say that the Corpus Juris was regarded as fundamental law ...
... force , because they were inconsistent either with legislative enactments or with customs so long established and so deeply rooted as to have the force of law . But , when we say that the Corpus Juris was regarded as fundamental 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!