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... Roman Justinian , but he assigns to it the prodigious date of 1,280 years before Christ . In the light of newer knowledge , which nevertheless might not have existed but for Jones , we can see that these statements of his require ...
... Roman Justinian , but he assigns to it the prodigious date of 1,280 years before Christ . In the light of newer knowledge , which nevertheless might not have existed but for Jones , we can see that these statements of his require ...
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... Roman Tables were taken from Greek originals . He attributes the Greek rules to Solon , and explains that they limited the costliness of the ancient ritual of funerals . The opinions of Sir William Jones produced great effects both in ...
... Roman Tables were taken from Greek originals . He attributes the Greek rules to Solon , and explains that they limited the costliness of the ancient ritual of funerals . The opinions of Sir William Jones produced great effects both in ...
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... Romans , and Greeks . Nobody , for example , will understand the ancient Roman lawyer , with that obstinate adherence of his to texts which has characterised his profession during so many centuries , and that method of stating his facts ...
... Romans , and Greeks . Nobody , for example , will understand the ancient Roman lawyer , with that obstinate adherence of his to texts which has characterised his profession during so many centuries , and that method of stating his facts ...
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... Roman Empire had merely transmitted its administrative system to Western Europe , and if it had not bequeathed to it a coherent body of codified secular law making con- siderable approach to completeness , it is very doubtful whether ...
... Roman Empire had merely transmitted its administrative system to Western Europe , and if it had not bequeathed to it a coherent body of codified secular law making con- siderable approach to completeness , it is very doubtful whether ...
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... Roman law of Succession are to be found in the Hindu law , but the terms expressing them ( suus hæres , agnate , cog- nate , actio de familiâ erciscundâ , and so forth ) mostly translate into phrases taking their meaning from the ...
... Roman law of Succession are to be found in the Hindu law , but the terms expressing them ( suus hæres , agnate , cog- nate , actio de familiâ erciscundâ , and so forth ) mostly translate into phrases taking their meaning from the ...
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