Assumption Quote by Henry James Sumner Maine

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“The inquiries of the jurist are in truth prosecuted much as inquiry in physic and physiology was prosecuted before observation had taken the place of assumption.”

Henry James Sumner Maine

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The Roman Code was merely an enunciation in words of the existing customs of the Roman people.

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When primitive law has once been embodied in a Code, there is an end to what may be called its spontaneous development.

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The most celebrated system of jurisprudence known to the world begins, as it ends, with a Code.

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The ancient codes were doubtless originally suggested by the discovery and diffusion of the art of writing.

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