A Manual of Civil Law: Containing a Translation of and Commentary on the Fragments of the XII. Tables and the Institutes of Justinian : the Text of the Institutes of Gaius and Justinian Arranged in Parallel Columns and the Text of the Fragments of Ulpian and of Selections from Paul's Receptæ Sententiæ |
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... time is not a body of regulations drawn up by a philosophic legislator , but a heterogeneous mass of positive rules and legal principles originating in custom or enactment , modified , no doubt , by the spirit . of civilization , and ...
... time is not a body of regulations drawn up by a philosophic legislator , but a heterogeneous mass of positive rules and legal principles originating in custom or enactment , modified , no doubt , by the spirit . of civilization , and ...
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... time , introduced into the state one not already a citizen . Moreover , the property of the individual member of a gens was regarded as in some sort the property of the body - hence the claim of the gentiles to succeed in certain events ...
... time , introduced into the state one not already a citizen . Moreover , the property of the individual member of a gens was regarded as in some sort the property of the body - hence the claim of the gentiles to succeed in certain events ...
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... time remained subject to a pro - consul or pro - prætor , and paid taxes to the Roman treasury . Under Diocletian and Constantine , however , the Roman empire was re - organised . It was divided into Præfectures , each under a prætorian ...
... time remained subject to a pro - consul or pro - prætor , and paid taxes to the Roman treasury . Under Diocletian and Constantine , however , the Roman empire was re - organised . It was divided into Præfectures , each under a prætorian ...
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... time of Augus- tus , the Senatus - consulta , or Ordinances of the Senate , became a fruitful source of law : thenceforward , till the time of Severus , A.D. 222 , they are numerous . After Hadrian's time it became usual to add to a Sc ...
... time of Augus- tus , the Senatus - consulta , or Ordinances of the Senate , became a fruitful source of law : thenceforward , till the time of Severus , A.D. 222 , they are numerous . After Hadrian's time it became usual to add to a Sc ...
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... time of the Antonines , for Gaius , who wrote under them , declares himself a Sabinian . From the beginning of the Empire , therefore , to the time of Justinian , may be taken as the most important period in the history of Roman law - a ...
... time of the Antonines , for Gaius , who wrote under them , declares himself a Sabinian . From the beginning of the Empire , therefore , to the time of Justinian , may be taken as the most important period in the history of Roman law - a ...
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according acquired action adopted against agnati agreement allowed appointed became because benefit bequeathed bound brought called case cases children citizen Civil Law claim condemnatio condictio condition conductor continued contract creditor damage death debt debtor deceased defendant delivery demandant effect entitled exceptio fact family father filius-familias first fixed formula Gaius give given goods grandson granted hæredes hæreditas hæres have held Hence heres intention interdict iure judex Justinian land legacies legacy legatee liable made magistrate make master merely might money name obligation old law only order other owner Papia parties party pater-familias peculium penalty period person personal plaintiff possession possessor power Prætor prætorian property proprietor purchaser question raised real reason required right sale same servitude share sine slave stipulatio subject such sui juris testament testator theft there they thing third those time TITLE transfer trust tutor Twelve Tables unless used usucapio usufruct value void were whole words would
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Page 396 - TUTELA. Ex eadem lege duodecim tabularum libertorum et libertarum tutela ad patronos liberosque eorum pertinet, quae et ipsa legitima tutela vocatur : non quia nominatim ea lege de hac tutela cavetur, sed quia perinde accepta est per interpretationem, atque si verbis legis introducta esset.
Page 371 - ... et haec adeo ita sunt, ut, quamvis per adoptionem parentum liberorumve loco sibi esse coeperint, non possint inter se matrimonio...
Page 256 - To let out labor or industry is a contract by which one of the parties binds himself to do something for the other, in consideration of a certain price agreed on by them both.
Page 565 - Et stipulandi et promittendi duo pluresve rei fieri possunt. stipulandi ita, si post omnium interrogationem promissor respondeat ' spondeo.' ut puta cum duobus separatim stipulantibus ita promissor respondeat ' utrique vestrum dare spondeo...
Page 386 - ... nepotes neptesque sui iuris fiunt, sed ita, si post mortem avi in potestatem patris sui recasuri non sunt: itaque si moriente avo pater eorum et vivit et in potestate patris sui est, tune post obitum avi in potestate patris sui...
Page 570 - Praeterea inutilis est stipulatio, si ei dari stipulemur cuius iuri subiecti non sumus : unde illu</ quaesitum est, si quis sibi et ei cuius iuri subiectus non est dari stipuletur, in quantum valeat stipulatio. nostri praeceptores putant in universum valere, et proinde ei soli qui stipulatus sit solidum deberi, atque si extranei nomen non adiecisset.
Page 369 - In potestate itaque dominorum sunt servi, quae quidem potestas iuris gentium est: nam apud omnes peraeque gentes animadvertere possumus dominis in servos vitae necisque potestatem esse, et quodcumque per servum acquiritur, id domino acquiritur [al.
Page 565 - Condiciones, quae ad praeteritum vel ad praesens tempus referuntur, aut statim infirmant obligationem aut omnino non differunt : veluti ' si Titius consul fuit ' vel ' si Maevius vivit, dare spondes ? ' nam si ea ita non sunt, nihil valet stipulatio : sin autem ita se habent, statim valet, quae enim per rerum naturam certa sunt, non morantur obligationem, licet apud nos incerta sint.
Page 559 - Omnium autem obligationum summa divisio in duo genera deducitur: namque aut civiles sunt aut praetoriae. civiles sunt , quae aut legibus constitutae aut certe iure civili comprobatae sunt. praetoriae sunt, quas praetor ex sua iurisdictione constituit, quae etiam honorariae vocantur.
Page 577 - Praeterea lege Cicereia* cautum est, ut is qui sponsores aut fidepromissores accipiat praedicat palam et declaret, et de qua re satis accipiat, et quot sponsores aut fidepromissores in...