The Roman jurisprudence has the longest known history of any set of human institutions.
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The most celebrated system of jurisprudence known to the world begins, as it ends, with a Code.Henry James Sumner Maine
The Roman Code was merely an enunciation in words of the existing customs of the Roman people.
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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.
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The ancient Roman code belongs to a class of which almost every civilised nation in the world can show a sample, and which, so far as the Roman and Hellenic worlds were concerned, were largely diffused over them at epochs not widely distant from one another.
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The epoch of Customary Law, and of its custody by a privileged order, is a very remarkable one.
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