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Page 50
... passed into these codes . Indeed , it is impossible to understand them thoroughly or to interpret them properly with- out a knowledge of the Roman law . To know what their makers had in mind and sought to express , to determine the real ...
... passed into these codes . Indeed , it is impossible to understand them thoroughly or to interpret them properly with- out a knowledge of the Roman law . To know what their makers had in mind and sought to express , to determine the real ...
Page 51
... . The first jurisconsults were in general elderly men ( as Cato the Censor , in his old age ) , whose lives had been passed in political and military service ; but afterward they were men who ( THE ROMAN LAW BEFORE JUSTINIAN.
... . The first jurisconsults were in general elderly men ( as Cato the Censor , in his old age ) , whose lives had been passed in political and military service ; but afterward they were men who ( THE ROMAN LAW BEFORE JUSTINIAN.
Page 61
... passing through the whole series of political distinctions , found an agreeable occupation for their advanced years in giving to their fellow - citi- zens the benefit of their knowledge and experience . Cicero , in more than one passage ...
... passing through the whole series of political distinctions , found an agreeable occupation for their advanced years in giving to their fellow - citi- zens the benefit of their knowledge and experience . Cicero , in more than one passage ...
Page 64
... passed down from one gen- eration to another , new questions and controversies were continually added to the old ones ; and if the differences had at first a common character , such as the one just supposed , this soon ceased to be the ...
... passed down from one gen- eration to another , new questions and controversies were continually added to the old ones ; and if the differences had at first a common character , such as the one just supposed , this soon ceased to be the ...
Page 120
... passed through every grade in the public service , to have been tribunes and prætors and consuls , to have reached an honored old age , without ever having owned or been able to own a pennyworth of property ! It must doubtless have ...
... passed through every grade in the public service , to have been tribunes and prætors and consuls , to have reached an honored old age , without ever having owned or been able to own a pennyworth of property ! It must doubtless have ...
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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!