Institutes
Justinian
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Institutes of Roman Law Gaius 4 neutral 2 extended 16 citations · 91 passages
ch. 23 3 passages anchored here · ch. 26 4 passages anchored here · ch. 35 4 passages anchored here · de lege fvfia caninia. (1) · ch. 38 3 passages anchored here · ch. 53 · ch. 81 16 passages anchored here · ch. 82 2 passages anchored hereJustinian's Institutes are cited repeatedly (Inst. 1,6,2; 2,14,1; 2,14,3; 3,17,1-2; 2,20,pr) to support and cross-reference the rules discussed.
In the same title of the Institutes, Justinian mentions that an heir might either be appointed to take the whole of an inheritance or to share it with other co-heirs in any proportions.
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Ancient Law Henry Sumner Maine 1 endorsed 2 citations
Explicitly named and positively noted as an accessible scholarly resource.
Greenidge have made excellent provision of various kinds both for beginners and for advanced students, and Sohm’s Institutes are accessible in Mr.
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The Law of Torts Sir Frederick Pollock 2 citations · 3 passages
The Institutes, and the underlying lost work of Ulpian it copies, are directly quoted and relied upon as the authority for the precept alterum non laedere.
Let us turn to one of the best-known sentences in the introductory chapter of the Institutes, copied from a lost work of Ulpian.
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The Rights of War and Peace Hugo Grotius 1 citation
Caius is explicitly named as the source of the legal principle
Letting and hiring, as Caius has justly said, come nearest to selling and buying, and are regulated by the same principles.
chapter xii.: on contracts. ¶ -
The Unconstitutionality of Slavery Lysander Spooner 1 citation · 4 passages
Justinian is named and quoted for maxims used to support the essay's natural-law argument.
Justinian says, “Captivity and servitude are both contrary to the law of nature;
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