Roman Jurisconsults
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Ancient Law
Roman legal scholars whose philosophical theories are examined in the book.
The space allotted in the Third and Fourth Chapters to certain philosophical theories of the Roman Jurisconsults has been appropriated to them for two reasons.
In comparing the Roman Responsa Prudentum with their nearest English counterpart, it must be carefully borne in mind that the authority by which this part of the Roman jurisprudence was expounded was not the bench, but the bar.
We cannot doubt that the peculiarities which have been noticed in the instrumentality by which the development of the Roman law was first effected, were the source of its characteristic excellence, its early wealth in principles.