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... rules and principles of the law were then reduced to the form of a system , condensed , digested , and complete , in which they were best fitted to influence the mind and mould . the institutions of modern Europe . The Corpus Juris is a ...
... rules and principles of the law were then reduced to the form of a system , condensed , digested , and complete , in which they were best fitted to influence the mind and mould . the institutions of modern Europe . The Corpus Juris is a ...
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... rules drawn from the storehouse of the Corpus Juris . They 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 ...
... rules drawn from the storehouse of the Corpus Juris . They 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 ...
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... rules contained in it . From many sources must have come a real or apparent demand for further law - making . Thus we find that Justinian , after the completion of his great legislative work , issued a large number of new constitutions ...
... rules contained in it . From many sources must have come a real or apparent demand for further law - making . Thus we find that Justinian , after the completion of his great legislative work , issued a large number of new constitutions ...
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... rules and doctrines thus established . He may have dreaded the expenditure of time and toil necessary for the recasting of a law - book so voluminous : he may have shrunk from calling on his subjects to throw away the heavy and costly ...
... rules and doctrines thus established . He may have dreaded the expenditure of time and toil necessary for the recasting of a law - book so voluminous : he may have shrunk from calling on his subjects to throw away the heavy and costly ...
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... rules and customs , the Salian , or Western , and the Ripuarian , or Eastern , Franks . Now a Salian , wherever he might be , in whatever part of France , was judged by the Salic law ; and in like manner a Ripu- arian by the Ripuaric ...
... rules and customs , the Salian , or Western , and the Ripuarian , or Eastern , Franks . Now a Salian , wherever he might be , in whatever part of France , was judged by the Salic law ; and in like manner a Ripu- arian by the Ripuaric ...
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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!