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... 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 Juris Civilis represents only one phase , the latest ...
... 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 Juris Civilis represents only one phase , the latest ...
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... points , the compilers had come to have a more distinct and a more advanced concep- tion of the modifications which it was desirable to make in the older system . Hence , the Codex appeared , in the light of these altered views and this ...
... points , the compilers had come to have a more distinct and a more advanced concep- tion of the modifications which it was desirable to make in the older system . Hence , the Codex appeared , in the light of these altered views and this ...
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... results , when they are arrived at , will not be lost in air , but will be recorded and permanent , to the great advantage of succeeding inquirers . Contro- versies on points of legal doctrine are , indeed , 20 THE ROMAN LAW .
... results , when they are arrived at , will not be lost in air , but will be recorded and permanent , to the great advantage of succeeding inquirers . Contro- versies on points of legal doctrine are , indeed , 20 THE ROMAN LAW .
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In Twelve Academical Lectures James Hadley. versies on points of legal doctrine are , indeed , the in- evitable result of mental activity applied without re- straint to legal questions and relations . To stifle thought and to suppress ...
In Twelve Academical Lectures James Hadley. versies on points of legal doctrine are , indeed , the in- evitable result of mental activity applied without re- straint to legal questions and relations . To stifle thought and to suppress ...
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... point , have never been surpassed , and seldom equalled , by later interpreters . Here , then , in this school of the glossators , at Bo- logna , in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries , the awakened mind of Europe was brought to ...
... point , have never been surpassed , and seldom equalled , by later interpreters . Here , then , in this school of the glossators , at Bo- logna , in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries , the awakened mind of Europe was brought to ...
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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!