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The first qualification for a historian is to have no ability to invent.

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Henry James Sumner Maine

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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The ancient codes were doubtless originally suggested by the discovery and diffusion of the art of writing.

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In spite of overwhelming evidence, it is most difficult for a citizen of western Europe to bring thoroughly home to himself the truth that the civilisation which surrounds him is a rare exception in the history of the world.

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It is true that the aristocracies seem to have abused their monopoly of legal knowledge and at all events their exclusive possession of the law was a formidable impediment to the success of those popular movements which began to be universal in the western world.

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