| Hugh Swinton Legaré - Attorneys general - 1846 - 652 pages
...jus gentium, of the privileges of the citizen to the rights of man, of the pride and the prejudices of Rome to the genius of humanity consecrated by the religion of Christ. There are those who seem to imagine that the civil law has existed as a science only since Justinian... | |
| Hugh Swinton Legaré - United States - 1846 - 642 pages
...jus gentium, of the privileges of the citizen to the rights of man, of the pride and the prejudices of Rome to the genius of humanity consecrated by the religion of Christ. There are those who seem to imagine that the civil law has existed as a science only since Justinian... | |
| Social sciences - 1879 - 844 pages
...jus gentium ; of the privileges of the citizens to the rights of man ; of the pride and prejudices of Rome to the genius of humanity, consecrated by the religion of Christ. There are those who seem to imagine that the civil law has existed, as a science, only since Justinian... | |
| William Carey Morey - Roman law - 1894 - 460 pages
...perpetual sacrifice of law to equity, of science to policy or feeling, of jus civile to jus rentium, of the pride and privileges of Rome to the genius...Introduction to Roman Law," ch. 4 ; Gibbon, " Decline and Fall," ch. 44 ; Guizot, " Hist, of Civilization in France," Lect. n ; "Dict. Antiqq." (Codex Grtgorianus,... | |
| Martin Brewer Anderson - 1895 - 304 pages
...\.QJUS gentium ; of the privileges of the citizens to the rights of man ; of the pride and prejudices of Rome to the genius of humanity, consecrated by the religion of Christ. There are those who seem to imagine that the civil law has existed, as a science, only since Justinian... | |
| William Carey Morey - History - 1915 - 650 pages
...publication of the Code. This compilation was perhaps the greatest legacy of Rome to the modern world. " It was in this form," as Savigny says, " that the Roman law became the common law of Europe." II. NEW BARBARIAN INVASIONS OF THE EMPIRE Conquest of Italy by the Lombards (568 AD). —The empire,... | |
| William Carey Morey - History - 1915 - 666 pages
...publication of the Code. This compilation was perhaps the greatest legacy of Rome to the modern world. " It was in this form," as Savigny says, " that the Roman law became the common law of Europe." II. New Barbarian Invasions of the Empire Conquest of Italy by the Lombards (568 ad).—The empire,... | |
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