InstitutionesThe Lawbook Exchange, Ltd., 2004 - 626 pages AN EXCELLENT INTRODUCTION TO ROMAN LAW. Originally published: London: Stevens & Sons, 1882. xiii, lx, 626 pp. With an extensive introduction. In this edition Mears arranged both Institutes in parallel columns to facilitate comparisons. Passages copied from Gaius are printed in italics. The two Novels, which deal with intestate succession, are included because they supplanted the sections on that subject in Justinian's Institutes. "[A] concise and practical vade meecum for the student of Roman Law at the Universities and Inns of Court." --8 Law Magazine and Review 5th Series (1882-1883) 107. THOMAS LAMBERT MEARS [1839-1918] was a barrister of the Inner Temple and legal writer who taught at the University of London. Some of his notable works are Analysis of M. Ortolan's Institutes of Justinian (1876), and A Treatise on the Admiralty Jurisdiction and Practice of the High Court of Justice (1903). |
Contents
i | |
ix | |
xvii | |
xx | |
xxiv | |
xxvi | |
xxxvii | |
INSTITUTIONUM | 1 |
De iis per quos agere possumus | 226 |
De exceptionibus | 232 |
De poena temere litigantium | 244 |
the reasons | 265 |
108115K Of marital power | 279 |
released from the power of others | 286 |
Of the tutorship by law of patrons | 297 |
Of the extinction of the tutorship | 303 |
De lege Fusia Caninia sublata | 13 |
De Adoptionibus | 23 |
De tutelis | 32 |
168 | 37 |
De legitima parentura tutela | 39 |
De suspectis tutoribus vel cura | 46 |
iit De rerum divisione De rerum divisione | 48 |
poralibus poralibus | 57 |
De donationibus | 67 |
174 | 88 |
mantur mantur | 95 |
268 | 121 |
Liber iii | 124 |
De senatusconsulto Tertulliano | 133 |
39 | 140 |
De successionibus sublatis quro | 155 |
I35I38 De consensu obligatione | 169 |
xxiii | 170 |
xxvi | 176 |
i63i67A Per quas personas nobis obligatio | 180 |
De vi bonorum raptorum | 192 |
Commentarius iv | 200 |
Of suspected tutors or curators | 309 |
Of corporeal and incorporeal things | 323 |
163167A Of the persons through whom xxviii | 340 |
Of a soldiers testament | 349 |
Of legacies | 385 |
Of the revocation and transference | 396 |
Of specific things bequeathed | 405 |
Book iii | 411 |
Of the succession by law of agnates | 418 |
Of the Orphitian decree of | 424 |
Of the succession of freedmen | 432 |
Of the assignment of freedmen | 442 |
Of acquisition by arrogation | 448 |
in writing | 469 |
delicts | 509 |
__ Of formula | 535 |
Of replications | 555 |
Of the penalties on rash litigation | 567 |
Of public prosecutions | 573 |
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Page xxix - If a man were called to fix the period in the history of the world during which the condition of the human race was most happy and prosperous, he would, without hesitation, name that which elapsed from the death of Domitian to the accession of Commodus.
Page xxix - The vast extent of the Roman empire was governed by absolute power, under the guidance of virtue and wisdom. The armies were restrained by the firm but gentle hand of four successive emperors, whose characters and authority commanded involuntary respect.