The epoch of Customary Law, and of its custody by a privileged order, is a very remarkable one.
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The Roman Code was merely an enunciation in words of the existing customs of the Roman people.Henry James Sumner Maine
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 which the gulf is narrowed.
Henry James Sumner Maine
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 ancient codes were doubtless originally suggested by the discovery and diffusion of the art of writing.
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The Roman jurisprudence has the longest known history of any set of human institutions.
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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 usurpation or engine of tyranny.
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