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... parties in a suit or by magistrates . Codes made up of imperial constitutions , selected and arranged , had been produced be- fore , especially the Theodosian Code in the fifth century . The new CODEX CONSTITUTIONUM , prepared in little ...
... parties in a suit or by magistrates . Codes made up of imperial constitutions , selected and arranged , had been produced be- fore , especially the Theodosian Code in the fifth century . The new CODEX CONSTITUTIONUM , prepared in little ...
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... parties in some controversy , or , more commonly , by officers charged with the administration of justice in Italy or the prov- inces . All these various utterances are included in the term constitutiones ; and it is hardly necessary to ...
... parties in some controversy , or , more commonly , by officers charged with the administration of justice in Italy or the prov- inces . All these various utterances are included in the term constitutiones ; and it is hardly necessary to ...
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... parties to a lawsuit were of different nationalities , the law to be applied by the court was determined , sometimes by the person of the plaintiff who could claim that rights given him by his law had not been respected by the other ...
... parties to a lawsuit were of different nationalities , the law to be applied by the court was determined , sometimes by the person of the plaintiff who could claim that rights given him by his law had not been respected by the other ...
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... parties such a formula , or precise statement of the issue . All these depended on the jurisconsults for legal knowledge and counsel . The first jurisconsults were in general elderly men ( as Cato the Censor , in his old age ) , whose ...
... parties such a formula , or precise statement of the issue . All these depended on the jurisconsults for legal knowledge and counsel . The first jurisconsults were in general elderly men ( as Cato the Censor , in his old age ) , whose ...
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... parties to a suit might quote conflicting passages from this wide range of juristic literature . How should the judge proceed in such a case ? Who should decide when doctors disagreed ? The special object of the statute was to meet and ...
... parties to a suit might quote conflicting passages from this wide range of juristic literature . How should the judge proceed in such a case ? Who should decide when doctors disagreed ? The special object of the statute was to meet and ...
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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!