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... 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 Senate , in ...
... 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 Senate , in ...
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... regarded as necessary , especially as the Codex embraced a number of topics which , by the nature of the case , could not appear in the Digest . The latter was of course silent on all matters and relations which had risen into being or ...
... regarded as necessary , especially as the Codex embraced a number of topics which , by the nature of the case , could not appear in the Digest . The latter was of course silent on all matters and relations which had risen into being or ...
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... regarded , practically at least , its public and private law as parts of the same system , and there- fore equally authoritative . But the feudal lords of Germany and the free cities of Italy insisted on making a distinction between the ...
... regarded , practically at least , its public and private law as parts of the same system , and there- fore equally authoritative . But the feudal lords of Germany and the free cities of Italy insisted on making a distinction between the ...
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... regarded , by the force of old tradition , as the proper official language of the empire . The actual use of Greek as the pre- vailing language of the Novels distinguishes this from the preceding portions of the Corpus Juris . In the ...
... regarded , by the force of old tradition , as the proper official language of the empire . The actual use of Greek as the pre- vailing language of the Novels distinguishes this from the preceding portions of the Corpus Juris . In the ...
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... regarded as essential to a proper understanding of their legal systems , and therefore as the necessary basis of a legal education . THERE is a wide difference in the effects of a con- quest , according as the conquerors are superior in ...
... regarded as essential to a proper understanding of their legal systems , and therefore as the necessary basis of a legal education . THERE is a wide difference in the effects of a con- quest , according as the conquerors are superior in ...
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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!