Elementary Principles of the Roman Private Laiv. 



By W. W. Buckland, M.A., Fellozv and Tutor of Gon- 

 ville and Cuius College, Cambridge. 



Demy 8vo. pp. viii + 420. Price \os. bd. net. 



EXTRACTS FROM PRESS NOTICES 



Juridical Review. — The pre.sent volume is a handbook for students of the 



Itistitutes of Gaius and Justinian. In achieving this object it follows a 

 somewhat novel but very useful method, being neither a textual com- 

 mentary on those ancient manuals nor a complete exposition of their 

 contents. The author assumes a knovvledge of the text, and discusses 

 the principles involved in the doctrines there laid down, presenting in a 

 luminous and suggestive manner the difficulties which arise and the 



current theories as to their solution The book is sane and sound 



throughout Mr Buckland tries to present the law from the point of view 



of the practising Roman lawyer. The result cannot fail to stimulate 

 the interest of the student and help him to realize that the law of Rome 

 was not a collection of dry bones, but a living, full-blooded reality. 



Lmv Magazine. — This is a scholarly and thoughtful treatise on the inex- 

 haustible subject of Roman law The practitioner who wishes to 



revive his learning, and the student who is preparing for examination 

 will find in this a valuable and ready help. 



Law Quarterly Revieiv. — Mr Buckland has well fulfilled his purpose of 

 showing the Roman law as ' not merely a set of rules on paper, a 

 literary product, but a group of institutions under which the Romans 

 actually lived.' The spirit is as far as possible from that of the old-fashioned 

 manuals which combined exaggerated letter-worship of the Roman jurists 



with misunderstanding, often gross, of the subject Altogether this is 



a most commendable piece of work, and highly creditable to the Cam- 

 bridge law school. 



Latv Times. — The book is specially designed for students who have read 

 their Institutes and but little more, and .VIr Buckland is to be con- 

 gratulated upon producing an exceedingly useful and interesting work. 



Scotsman. — A student who is expected to know no more of Roman law than 

 Gaius and Justinian can teach him, might search long and vainly before 

 coming on a book better suited to his purposes. The commentary 

 supplements without attempting to supersede the old Institutes themselves, 

 and carries lightly a great weight of learning both in the old texts them- 

 selves and in the endless modern literature of their latter-day expositors. 



It cannot but prove profitable reading to all sorts of students who 



have for the first time to take up the Civil Law. 



Oxford Magazine. — This is a learned and valuable book, which does what no 



other work in English, so far as we know, attempts to do It does 



not profess to be a systematic exposition of the Roman Law (though 

 there is admirable exposition in it), but a series of critical discussions of 

 Roman institutions, and the theories which have clustered round them. 



Mr Buckland states that his object is "to suggest and stimulate 



rather than to inform." This end he has achieved. 



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