Private Law Among the Romans: From the Pandects

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Macmillan and Company, 1863 - Digesta - 423 pages

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Page ix - There will be none such any more, till in some better age, true ambition or the love of fame prevails over avarice ; and till men find leisure and encouragement to prepare themselves for the exercise of this profession, by climbing up to the vantage ground...
Page ix - ... so my Lord Bacon calls it — of science, instead of grovelling all their lives below in a mean but gainful application to all the little arts of chicane. Till this happen, the...
Page xv - C'est une étrange et longue guerre que celle où la violence essaie d'opprimer la vérité. Tous les efforts de la violence ne peuvent affaiblir la vérité, et ne servent qu'à la relever davantage.
Page xii - Moved in the orb, pleased with the chimes, The foolish creature thinks he climbs : But here or there, turn wood or wire, He never gets two inches higher. So fares it with those merry blades, That frisk it under Pindus' shades. In noble songs, and lofty odes, They tread on stars, and talk with Gods ; Still dancing in an airy round, Still pleased with their own verses' sound ; Brought back, how fast soe'er they go, Always aspiring, always low.
Page 204 - Si quis diuturno usu et longa quasi possessione ius aquae ducendae nactus sit, non est ei necesse docere de iure, quo aqua constituta est, veluti ex legato vel alio modo, sed utilem habet actionem, ut ostendat per annos forte tot usum se non vi non clam non precario possedisse.
Page 2 - ... system ; but, whatever their parentage was, they are now adopted by the common law of England, incorporated into its body, and so interwoven with its policy; that no court of justice in this kingdom has either the power or (I trust) the inclination to disturb them.
Page 141 - ... nee interest, feras bestias et volucres utrum in suo fundo quisque capiat, an in alieno: plane qui in alienum fundum ingreditur venandi aut aucupandi gratia, potest a domino, si is providerit, prohiberi ne ingrediatur.
Page xv - ... mensonge : mais la violence et la vérité ne peuvent rien l'une sur l'autre. Qu'on ne prétende pas de là néanmoins que les choses soient égales : car il ya cette extrême différence que la violence n'a qu'un cours borné par l'ordre de Dieu, qui en conduit les effets à la gloire de la vérité qu'elle attaque, au lieu que la vérité subsiste éternellement et triomphe enfin de ses ennemis, parce qu'elle est éternelle et puissante comme Dieu même.
Page viii - I can hardly forbear doing it in that of the law; in its nature the noblest and most beneficial to mankind, in its abuse and debasement the most sordid and the most pernicious.
Page 220 - Obligationum substantia non in eo consistit ut aliquod corpus nostrum aut servitutem nostram faciat, sed ut alium nobis obstringat ad dandum aliquid vel faciendum vel praestandum, Dig.

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