The Influence of the Roman Law on the Law of England: Being the Yorke Prize Essay of the University of Cambridge for the Year 1884 |
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... suggest a Roman origin , while entirely omitting to consider those portions which , while different from what we know of Saxon institutions , are also completely unlike the Roman system on which they are supposed to be founded . The ...
... suggest a Roman origin , while entirely omitting to consider those portions which , while different from what we know of Saxon institutions , are also completely unlike the Roman system on which they are supposed to be founded . The ...
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... suggest that any reliance is to be placed on the number of strange names of judges , and the confidence with which their alleged decisions are cited . Neither does the manner in which Mr Finlason deals with the statements of the work ...
... suggest that any reliance is to be placed on the number of strange names of judges , and the confidence with which their alleged decisions are cited . Neither does the manner in which Mr Finlason deals with the statements of the work ...
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... suggests a great ignorance of historical progress , and lack of appreciation of the value and fertility of early customs and institutions , " barbarous " though they may seem to an enlightened Romanist . The whole of the argument ...
... suggests a great ignorance of historical progress , and lack of appreciation of the value and fertility of early customs and institutions , " barbarous " though they may seem to an enlightened Romanist . The whole of the argument ...
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... suggested , though the evidence is not very clear , that such a system , similar to the later manorial one , has elements in it derived , in all probability , from the Roman system of coloni . Until quite recently the weight of opinion ...
... suggested , though the evidence is not very clear , that such a system , similar to the later manorial one , has elements in it derived , in all probability , from the Roman system of coloni . Until quite recently the weight of opinion ...
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... suggest that the tax , originally personal , became connected with the land as the progress of feudal ideas inseparably connected the freeman and the landowner . But this personal character is fatal to the Roman origin of the tax , the ...
... suggest that the tax , originally personal , became connected with the land as the progress of feudal ideas inseparably connected the freeman and the landowner . But this personal character is fatal to the Roman origin of the tax , the ...
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