118th Novel of Justinian
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118th Novel · Novella Constitutio
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Dissertations on Early Law and Custom
Justinian's legislative Novel, the last revision of Roman succession law.
Almost all the English law on the subject of the descent of Personalty, a great deal of Continental law on the same subject, and some part of our law of Realty, has for its foundation the 118th Novel, or Novella Constitutio, of Justinian.
Lectures on the Early History of Institutions
A legal enactment of Justinian declaring the Descriptive system of kinship nomenclature.
It has come to us from the Canon law, or else from the Roman law, more particularly as declared in the 118th Novel of Justinian, but it is not at all confined to societies deeply affected by Civil and Canon law.