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... jurist Ulpian ( died 228 ) , a sixth from his contemporary Julius Paulus , a twelfth from Papinian ( died 212 ) , etc. The Digest is the long- est component of the Corpus Juris , and much the most important , from the nature and variety ...
... jurist Ulpian ( died 228 ) , a sixth from his contemporary Julius Paulus , a twelfth from Papinian ( died 212 ) , etc. The Digest is the long- est component of the Corpus Juris , and much the most important , from the nature and variety ...
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... jurists , and usually by those who stood first in their profession . Of course , the number issued during five centuries of imperial dominion must have been very large . Three or four collections had already been made , in which the ...
... jurists , and usually by those who stood first in their profession . Of course , the number issued during five centuries of imperial dominion must have been very large . Three or four collections had already been made , in which the ...
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... jurist , who was regarded by his contemporaries with a veneration which has been sustained by the judgment of succeeding ages . When the tyrant Caracalla murdered his brother Geta , he called upon Papinian to prepare an address to the ...
... jurist , who was regarded by his contemporaries with a veneration which has been sustained by the judgment of succeeding ages . When the tyrant Caracalla murdered his brother Geta , he called upon Papinian to prepare an address to the ...
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... jurists of the famous school of Bologna supported the imperial pretensions with texts and rules drawn from the storehouse of the Corpus Juris . They regarded , practically at least , its public and private law as parts of the same ...
... jurists of the famous school of Bologna supported the imperial pretensions with texts and rules drawn from the storehouse of the Corpus Juris . They regarded , practically at least , its public and private law as parts of the same ...
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... jurist must be cited , no earlier constitution appealed to , ex- cept in the words of the Corpus Juris . The exact pres- ervation and transmission of its text was an object which excited the special solicitude of the emperor . The ...
... jurist must be cited , no earlier constitution appealed to , ex- cept in the words of the Corpus Juris . The exact pres- ervation and transmission of its text was an object which excited the special solicitude of the emperor . The ...
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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!