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Ancient Law Chapter 10
2023-12-07Chapter 10. The Early History of Delict and CrimeThe Teutonic Codes, including those of our Anglo-Saxon ancestors, are the only bodies of archaic secu...
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Ancient Law Chapter 9
2023-12-07Chapter 9. The Early History of ContractThere are few general propositions concerning the age to which we belong which seem at first sight likely to b...
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Ancient Law Chapter 8
2023-12-07Chapter 8. The Early History of PropertyThe Roman Institutional Treatises, after giving their definition of the various forms and modifications of own...
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Ancient Law Chapter 7
2023-12-07Chapter 7. Ancient and Modern Ideas Respecting Wills and SuccessionsAlthough there is much in the modern European Law of Wills which is intimately con...
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Ancient Law Chapter 6
2023-12-07Chapter 6. The Early History of Testamentary SuccessionIf an attempt were made to demonstrate in England the superiority of the historical method of i...
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Chapter 5. Primitive Society and Ancient LawThe necessity of submitting the subject of jurisprudence to scientific treatment has never been entirely l...
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Ancient Law Chapter 4
2023-12-07Chapter 4. The Modern History of the Law of NatureIt will be inferred from what has been said that the theory which transformed the Roman jurisprudenc...
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Ancient Law Chapter 3
2023-12-07Chapter 3. Law of Nature and EquityThe theory of a set of legal principles, entitled by their intrinsic superiority to supersede the older law, very e...
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Ancient Law Chapter 2
2023-12-07Chapter 2. Legal FictionsWhen primitive law has once been embodied in a Code, there is an end to what may be called its spontaneous development. Hence...
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Ancient Law Chapter 1
2023-12-07Chapter 1. Ancient CodesThe most celebrated system of jurisprudence known to the world begins, as it ends, with a Code. From the commencement to the c...