The epoch of Customary Law, and of its custody by a privileged order, is a very remarkable one..

In spite of overwhelming evidence, it is most difficult for a citizen of western Europe to bring thoroughly home to himself the truth that the civili….

It is true that the aristocracies seem to have abused their monopoly of legal knowledge and at all events their exclusive possession of the law was a….

The most superficial student of Roman history must be struck by the extraordinary degree in which the fortunes of the republic were affected by the p….

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….

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

The movement of the progressive societies has hitherto been a movement from Status to Contract..

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..

Our authorities leave us no doubt that the trust lodged with the oligarchy was sometimes abused, but it certainly ought not to be regarded as a mere ….

The Roman jurisprudence has the longest known history of any set of human institutions..

The members of such a society consider that the transgression of a religious ordinance should be punished by civil penalties, and that the violation ….

Law is stable the societies we are speaking of are progressive. The greater or less happiness of a people depends on the degree of promptitude with w….