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Code Quotes by Henry James Sumner Maine
- When primitive law has once been embodied in a Code, there is an end to what may be called its spontaneous development.
- The ancient codes were doubtless originally suggested by the discovery and diffusion of the art of writing.
- The Roman Code was merely an enunciation in words of the existing customs of the Roman people.
- The ancient Roman code belongs to a class of which almost every civilised nation in the world can show a sample, and which, so far…
- The most celebrated system of jurisprudence known to the world begins, as it ends, with a Code.
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