 | William M. Wiecek - 2001 - 300 pages
...jurisprudence was an arduous but indispensable task. In the space often centuries, the infinite va, riety of laws and legal opinions had filled many thousand...riches, were reduced to the exercise of their illiterate discretion.1— To make a bad situation worse, most American jurisdictions were abolishing common law... | |
 | Charles Francis Horne, Rossiter Johnson - 1905 - 438 pages
...ascended the throne, the reformation of the Roman jurisprudence was an arduous but indispensable task. In the space of ten centuries, the infinite variety...the Greek provinces were ignorant of the language that disposed of then- lives and properties; and the barbarous dialect of the Latins was imperfectly... | |
 | Missouri Bar Association - 1908 - 330 pages
...ascended the throne the reformation of the Roman jurisprudence was an arduous but an indispensable task. In the space of ten centuries the infinite variety...fortune could purchase and no capacity could digest." Under the direction of Justinian this mass of material was reduced to less than one hundred volumes... | |
 | State Bar Association of Wisconsin - 1901 - 438 pages
...law reports and digests. Gibbon says that before Justinian's code and Pandect's had been written, " the infinite variety of laws and legal opinions had...fortune could purchase and no capacity could digest. But the condition then was tolerable compared to that of the present. Tribonian and his associates... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons - 1859 - 208 pages
...reconcile. Thus we have arrived at the period of which the Roman historian complained so justly, when " the infinite variety of laws and legal opinions had...fortune could purchase, and no capacity could digest." How far, in the preparation of a code, changes should be recommended, is a question of much delicacy.... | |
 | 1828 - 484 pages
...reformation of the Roman jurisprudence. In the space of ten centuries, the infinite variety of law and legal opinions had filled many thousand volumes,...purchase, and no capacity could digest Books could not be easily found, and the subjects of the Greek provinces were ignorant of the language that disposed... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1828 - 620 pages
...was full of obscurity and wholly destitute of order. ' In the space of ten centuries,' says Gibbon, ' the infinite variety of laws and legal opinions had filled many thousand volumes, whichno fortune could purchase, and no capacity could digest. Books could not easily be found, and... | |
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When Justinian ascended the throne, the reformation of the Roman jurisprudence was an arduous but indispensable task. In the space of ten centuries the infinite variety of laws and legal opinions had filled many thousand volumes, which no fortune could... 
