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THE COMMENTARIES OF GAIUS AND RULES 



OF ULPIAN. (New Edition, revised and enlarged.) 

 With a Translation and Notes, by J. T. Abdy, LL.D., Judge of County 

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 Gains to the reader with few notes .and those made its appearance within four years from 

 merely by way of reference or necessary the original production of the book, should 

 explanation. Thus the Roman jurist is encourage the Syndics to further efforts in the 

 allowed to speak for himself, and the reader same direction. The auspices unde* which 

 feels that he is really studying Roman law Messrs Abdy and Walker produce their book 

 in the original, and not a fanciful representa- are a guarantee that it is a scholarly and 

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THE INSTITUTES OF JUSTINIAN, 

 translated with Notes by J. T. Abdy, LL.D. Judge of County Courts, 

 late Regius Professor of Laws in the University of Cambridge, and 

 formerly Fellow of Trinity Hall ; and Bryan Walker, M.A., LL.D. 

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to practised scholars, whose knowledge of historical and partly purely legal, in the 



classical models does not always avail them Appendi.x at the end. We conceive that 



in dealing with the technicalities of legal these short essays, treating ol patria potestas, 



phraseology. Nor can the ordinary diction- marriage, adoption, and the like, will be of 



aries be expected to furnish all the help that much service to the student, as presenting, 



is wanted. This translation will then be of , in a compendious form, yet not too scantily 



great use. To the ordinary student, whose : to be useful, that which would otherwise 



attention is distracted from the subject-matter have to be gleaned with labour from a large 



by the difficulty of struggling through the surface. The new book is also distinguished 



language in which it is contained, it will be by another special feature; an 'Analysis of 



almost indispensable." — Spectator. the Institutes' is given, in a tabular form, at 



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GROTIUS DE JURE BELLI ET PACIS, 



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