Continent of Europe · Atlas

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Lectures on the Early History of Institutions19th Century · English

Continental Europe, especially France, where Roman dotal law survives in modern form as the dot.

’ It has become the dot of French law, and is the favourite form of settling the property of married women all over the Continent of Europe.

lecture xi the early history of the settled proper ¶

This simple, but most admirable, contrivance of having, so to speak, model settlements set forth ready made in the law, which may be adopted or not at pleasure, characterises the French Code Napoléon, and it was inherited by the French from the Romans.

lecture xi the early history of the settled proper ¶

The Law of Intellectual Property19th Century · English

Named as a region facing obstacles to perpetual intellectual property similar to those in England.

On the continent of Europe, there are obstacles to be overcome, in the jealousies of wealth, and of hereditary and tyrannical rulers, of a similar nature to those in England.

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The Genius of the Common Law20th Century · English

Mainland Europe, described as under strong reactionary forces at the time Swinburne wrote his poem.

Now this was written by Algernon Charles Swinburne in praise of Liberty at a time when the powers of darkness were still very strong on the Continent of Europe.

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