Introduction to Roman Law: In Twelve Academical Lectures |
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... important , from the nature and variety of its contents , showing the spirit of the law , and giving illustrations ... importance of the latter is partly due to this fact , it being the private , not the public , law of Rome which has ...
... important , from the nature and variety of its contents , showing the spirit of the law , and giving illustrations ... importance of the latter is partly due to this fact , it being the private , not the public , law of Rome which has ...
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... importance of the theme itself , rather than on any attraction which I can hope to give it by my mode of treatment . That it has importance and interest , to the student of his- tory and the man of liberal culture as well as to the ...
... importance of the theme itself , rather than on any attraction which I can hope to give it by my mode of treatment . That it has importance and interest , to the student of his- tory and the man of liberal culture as well as to the ...
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... importance , because the rules and principles of the law were then reduced to the form of a system , condensed , digested , and complete , in which they were best fitted to influence the mind and mould . the institutions of modern ...
... importance , because the rules and principles of the law were then reduced to the form of a system , condensed , digested , and complete , in which they were best fitted to influence the mind and mould . the institutions of modern ...
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... important constitutions were selected from the mass , presented in a condensed form , and arranged according to their subjects . The last and most elab- orate of these collections was the Theodosian Code , compiled about a century ...
... important constitutions were selected from the mass , presented in a condensed form , and arranged according to their subjects . The last and most elab- orate of these collections was the Theodosian Code , compiled about a century ...
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... important belonged to a period from three to four centuries before Justinian ; only two of them were more recent than three centuries before ; while the earliest of the number , Q. Mucius Scaevola , an THE ROMAN LAW .
... important belonged to a period from three to four centuries before Justinian ; only two of them were more recent than three centuries before ; while the earliest of the number , Q. Mucius Scaevola , an THE ROMAN 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!