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Page v
... matter for congratulation that what may be fairly called a revival has taken place in this branch of learning ; and that in our own University the study of Roman Law , which has always had a footing here , although in later times ...
... matter for congratulation that what may be fairly called a revival has taken place in this branch of learning ; and that in our own University the study of Roman Law , which has always had a footing here , although in later times ...
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... matter itself which is of primary importance , with Gaius it is the clearing up of everything connected with the ... matter . What Gaius really had in view was , not the publication of a systematic treatise on private law , but the ...
... matter itself which is of primary importance , with Gaius it is the clearing up of everything connected with the ... matter . What Gaius really had in view was , not the publication of a systematic treatise on private law , but the ...
Page ix
... matter , however , is discussed with much attention and detail , viz . the position of the Latini in relation to private law ; but of this anomaly we shall speak at more length presently . So far for the first portion of the work : -The ...
... matter , however , is discussed with much attention and detail , viz . the position of the Latini in relation to private law ; but of this anomaly we shall speak at more length presently . So far for the first portion of the work : -The ...
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... matters Gaius does not dwell . His chief aim here , as it was in the subject of inheritance , is to show how they began and how they were ended . Thus then this second part of the Commentaries may be entitled " The objects of Law ...
... matters Gaius does not dwell . His chief aim here , as it was in the subject of inheritance , is to show how they began and how they were ended . Thus then this second part of the Commentaries may be entitled " The objects of Law ...
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... matters relating to it , throughout the Commentaries . It would , however , be impossible to deal with these topics apart from that very remarkable phenomenon that must catch the eye of every reader of Roman law , viz . the Jus Gentium ...
... matters relating to it , throughout the Commentaries . It would , however , be impossible to deal with these topics apart from that very remarkable phenomenon that must catch the eye of every reader of Roman law , viz . the Jus Gentium ...
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Page iii - Notes, by JT ABDY, LL.D., Judge of County Courts, late Regius Professor of Laws in the University of Cambridge, and BRYAN WALKER, MA, LL.D., Law Lecturer of St John's College, Cambridge, formerly Law Student of Trinity Hall and Chancellor's Medallist for Legal Studies. Crown 8vo.
Page 1 - Omnes populi qui legibus et moribus reguntur, partim suo proprio, partim communi omnium hominum iure utuntur; nam quod quisque populus ipse sibi ius constituit, id ipsius proprium est vocaturque ius civile, quasi ius proprium civitatis; quod vero naturalis ratio inter omnes homines constituit, id apud omnes populos peraeque custoditur vocaturque ius gentium, quasi quo iure omnes gentes utuntur.
Page 348 - ... legitime factum est nihil, tamen te esse interrogatum, auctorne esses, ut in te P. Fonteius vitae necisque potestatem haberet ut in filio — , quaero, si aut negasses aut tacuisses, si tamen id xxx curiae iussissent, num id iussum esset ratum?
Page 225 - ... 163. Expositis generibus obligationum quae ex contractu nascuntur, admonendi sumus adquiri nobis non solum per nosmet ipsos, sed etiam per eas personas quae in nostra potestate manu mancipioue sunt.
Page 160 - ... testamento codicilli confirmati non sint. (274.) Item mulier quae ab eo qui centum milia aeris census est per legem Voconiam heres institui non potest, tamen fideicommisso relictam sibi hereditatem capere potest.
Page 325 - Et modo cum poena agitur, modo sine poena : cum poena, ueluti cum per sponsionem agitur, sine poena, ueluti cum arbiter petitur. Et quidem ex prohibitoriis interdictis semper per sponsionem agi solet ; ex restitutoriis uero uel exhibitoriis modo per sponsionem, modo per formulam agitur quae arbitraria uocatur.
Page 95 - V p. 75 causa adquirunt, id nobis adquiritur. ipse enim / qui in potestate nostra est nihil suum habere potest.
Page 54 - Sunt autem agnati per virilis sexus personas cognatione iuncti, quasi a patre cognati, veluti frater eodem patre natus, fratris filius neposve ex eo, item patruus et patrui filius et nepos ex eo.
Page 303 - ... 92. Petitoria autem formula haec est qua actor intendit rem suam esse. § 93. Per sponsionem vero hoc modo agimus. provocamus adversarium tali sponsione : si HOMO QUO DE AGITUR EX IURE QUIEITIUM MEUS EST, SKSTEBTIOS XXV NUMMOS DARE SPONDES?
Page 17 - Antonini qui sine causa servum suum occiderit, non minus teneri iubetur, quam qui alienum servum occiderit. Sed et maior quoque asperitas dominorum per eiusdem Principis constitutionem coercetur. Nam consultus a quibusdam Praesidibus provinciarum de his servis, qui ad fana deorum vel ad statuas Principum confugiunt, praecepit, ut si intolerabilis videatur dominorum saevitia, cogantur servos suos vendere.