Jurists
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ancient jurists · jurisconsults · jurisprudence · jurists · the great majority of Jurists · the jurists · veteres
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Institutes of Roman Law (English)
the ingenuity of the jurists:
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Institutes of Roman Law
The class of Roman legal experts whose formalism undid statute-process and whose interpretive role expanded under the formulary system.
Sed istae omnes legis actiones paulatim in odium uenerunt.
Jurisprudence had been busy in framing such actions as the system admitted;
But all these branches of statute-process fell gradually into great discredit because the excessive subtlety of the ancient jurists made the slightest error fatal;
Ancient Law
Legal scholars whose consistent doctrine explains why certain classes of persons remain under status rather than contract.
The great majority of Jurists are constant to the principle that the classes of persons just mentioned are subject to extrinsic control on the single ground that they do not possess the faculty of forming a judgment on their own interests;