Select Essays in an Anglo-American Legal History, Vol. 1 of 3 (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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By the year 900 Roman jurisprudence had reached its zenith. Papinian was slain in Ulpian in Ul pian's pupil Modestinus may be accounted the last of the great lawyers.4 All too soon they became classical; their successors were looking backwards, not forwards. Of the work that had been done it were folly here to speak; but' the law of a little town had become ecumenical law, law alike for cultured Greece and for wild Britain. And yet, though it had assimilated new matter and new ideas, it had always preserved its tough identity. In the year 900 six centuries and a half Of definite legal history, if we measure only from the Twelve Tables, were consciously summed up in the living and growing body of the law.

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