"Jus civile" Quotes from Famous Books
... against the mistake of supposing that the Roman lawyers had any special respect for it. It was the fruit in part of their disdain for all foreign law, and in part of their disinclination to give the foreigner the advantage of their own indigenous Jus Civile. It is true that we, at the present day, should probably take a very different view of the Jus Gentium, if we were performing the operation which was effected by the Roman jurisconsults. We should ... — Ancient Law - Its Connection to the History of Early Society • Sir Henry James Sumner Maine |