The Specific Relief Act, No. 1 of 1877: With Commentaries Thereon and an Appendix of Forms (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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Next to the XII Tables the Praetorian Edict ranks as the most important source of Roman law. In form each item in the Edict was a declaration of the Praetor that under given circumstances he would grant an action or a special defence. The perpetual edict was thus a collection of actions supplementing and amending the Twelve Tables. The Chancellor of the King acted in England somewhat in the way in which the Praetor had acted at Rome) creating and enforcing supplementary or improved reme dies where the common law gave none, or only inadequate ones.

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