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... never violent or revolutionary ; they proceeded from point to point , with a slow , natural , and steady prog- ress ; but they amounted , in the course of centuries , to extensive and radical transformations of the system . The Corpus ...
... never violent or revolutionary ; they proceeded from point to point , with a slow , natural , and steady prog- ress ; but they amounted , in the course of centuries , to extensive and radical transformations of the system . The Corpus ...
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... never be repeated . To modern states , founded on different principles from those of ancient Rome , and seeking widely different ends by means that differ not less widely , the public law of the flourishing or expiring empire could have ...
... never be repeated . To modern states , founded on different principles from those of ancient Rome , and seeking widely different ends by means that differ not less widely , the public law of the flourishing or expiring empire could have ...
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... never came . The downward tendencies of society were too strong to be arrested . The great law - book of Justin- ian seems to have gained no very wide currency among those for whom it was intended . It was , to a great extent ...
... never came . The downward tendencies of society were too strong to be arrested . The great law - book of Justin- ian seems to have gained no very wide currency among those for whom it was intended . It was , to a great extent ...
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... never ceased to be known and used in parts of that country . But about 1100 ( opening era of the Crusades ) we find a greatly revived and extended study of the Roman law , carried on especially at Bologna , by a series of acute and ...
... never ceased to be known and used in parts of that country . But about 1100 ( opening era of the Crusades ) we find a greatly revived and extended study of the Roman law , carried on especially at Bologna , by a series of acute and ...
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... never been received , even as auxiliary .law . The common law ( mainly an unwritten customary system , founded ultimately on Germanic usages ) claims to supply its own needs by the extension of its own principles and analogies . Some of ...
... never been received , even as auxiliary .law . The common law ( mainly an unwritten customary system , founded ultimately on Germanic usages ) claims to supply its own needs by the extension of its own principles and analogies . Some 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!