Commentaries of Gaius
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'Commentaries of Gaius' · Gaius's Institutes
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Ancient Law
Gaius's legal text used as the source for the passage's account of Roman procedure and penal law.
Gaius carefully describes its ceremonial.
In the example selected by Gaius, the suit is for a slave.
If the Commentaries of Gaius be opened at the place where the writer treats of the penal jurisprudence founded on the Twelve Tables, it will be seen that at the head of the civil wrongs recognised by the Roman law stood Furtum or Theft.
Dissertations on Early Law and Custom
Ancient Roman legal text discovered by Niebuhr, key to reconstructing early Roman law.
Its revival may be said to be owing to Niebuhr’s discovery of the ‘Commentaries of Gaius,’ which, though not directly treating of ancient Roman law, enabled us to divide it into successive stages or strata, and gave us a singularly complete view of the earliest among them.