Journal of Comparative Legislation and International LawSociety of Comparative Legislation, 1905 Includes annual "Review of legislation" covering the years 1859-1949. |
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... Papinian , and served as a member of the Imperial Council . There are some stories afloat as to the existence of a certain rivalry between him and Papinian , and , according to Rudorff ( Rechtsgeschichte , I. p . 189 ) , he was even ...
... Papinian , and served as a member of the Imperial Council . There are some stories afloat as to the existence of a certain rivalry between him and Papinian , and , according to Rudorff ( Rechtsgeschichte , I. p . 189 ) , he was even ...
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... Papinian was a Syrian ( see Professor Clark's article in this journal , N.S. , IX . p . 19 ) . Julia Domna , the wife of Severus , was a Syrian . Ulpian , the Emperor Heliogabalus , and Julia Mamæa ( see the text above ) were all ...
... Papinian was a Syrian ( see Professor Clark's article in this journal , N.S. , IX . p . 19 ) . Julia Domna , the wife of Severus , was a Syrian . Ulpian , the Emperor Heliogabalus , and Julia Mamæa ( see the text above ) were all ...
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... Papinian , the type that may be said to create - or , rather , to discover - the law . Ulpian's powers did not lie ... Papinian and Ulpian . It seems far more appropriate to Ulpian than to Papinian . of being hidden out of sight . For us ...
... Papinian , the type that may be said to create - or , rather , to discover - the law . Ulpian's powers did not lie ... Papinian and Ulpian . It seems far more appropriate to Ulpian than to Papinian . of being hidden out of sight . For us ...
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... Papinian ) form about one - third of the whole body of the Digest . Long as some of these excerpts are , they are very much shorter than the originals from which they were taken . For it was the business of the compilers " from vain ...
... Papinian ) form about one - third of the whole body of the Digest . Long as some of these excerpts are , they are very much shorter than the originals from which they were taken . For it was the business of the compilers " from vain ...
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... Papinian altogether . And during the ensuing centuries the authority enjoyed by Ulpian in the Courts- especially in the Eastern half of the Empire - was second only to that of Papinian , a fact to which formal expression was given in ...
... Papinian altogether . And during the ensuing centuries the authority enjoyed by Ulpian in the Courts- especially in the Eastern half of the Empire - was second only to that of Papinian , a fact to which formal expression was given in ...
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