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The most superficial student of Roman history must be struck by the extraordinary degree in which the fortunes of the republic were affected by the presence of foreigners, under different names, on her soil.

~Henry James Sumner Maine

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The Roman Code was merely an enunciation in words of the existing customs of the Roman people.

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The Roman jurisprudence has the longest known history of any set of human institutions.

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When primitive law has once been embodied in a Code, there is an end to what may be called its spontaneous development.

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Historian

Born: August 15th, 1822

Died: February 3rd, 1888

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