Revolution
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French Revolution · bouleversement · change · revolution · revolutions · the Revolution · the revolution
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Dissertations on Early Law and Custom (English) · Memorabilia (Greek)
The Roman law gained everywhere a considerable, and here and there a complete, ascendency over ancient custom, and the French Civil Code, the outcome of the Revolution, is only a version of Roman jurisprudence.
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Dissertations on Early Law and Custom
The French Revolution, credited with producing the French Civil Code.
The Roman law gained everywhere a considerable, and here and there a complete, ascendency over ancient custom, and the French Civil Code, the outcome of the Revolution, is only a version of Roman jurisprudence.
Nicocles or the Cyprians
Political upheaval that destroys states and devastates households.
Preserve the present order and do not desire any change, knowing that revolutions inevitably destroy states and lay waste the homes of the people.
Law in a Free State
The sudden collapse of an effete government's power, described as merely the outward expression of an internal death that had already occurred.
The bouleversement is usually called a revolution.
Memorabilia
The recent civil upheaval at Athens referenced by Aristarchus as the cause of the exodus to the Piraeus and of his household's loss of income from land and property.
Since the revolution there has been an exodus to the Piraeus, and a crowd of my women-folk, being left behind, are come to me, — sisters, nieces and cousins, — so that we are fourteen in the house without counting the slaves.