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• Our authorities leave us no doubt that the trust lodged with the oligarchy was sometimes abused, but it certainly ought not to…
• The inquiries of the jurist are in truth prosecuted much as inquiry in physic and physiology was prosecuted before observation had taken…
• 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.
• It is true that the aristocracies seem to have abused their monopoly of legal knowledge and at all events their exclusive possession…
• Law is stable the societies we are speaking of are progressive. The greater or less happiness of a people depends on the…
• The most superficial student of Roman history must be struck by the extraordinary degree in which the fortunes of the republic were…
• The members of such a society consider that the transgression of a religious ordinance should be punished by civil penalties, and that…
• The Roman Code was merely an enunciation in words of the existing customs of the Roman people.
• In spite of overwhelming evidence, it is most difficult for a citizen of western Europe to bring thoroughly home to himself the…
• The ancient Roman code belongs to a class of which almost every civilised nation in the world can show a sample, and…
• The epoch of Customary Law, and of its custody by a privileged order, is a very remarkable one.

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