Excerpt from The Library of Original Sources, Vol. 3: The Ideas That Have Influenced Civilization, in the Original Documents, Translated
Rome produced A system OF laws the equal Of which the world had never seen. It was her great work to build up a vast empire by conquest and to lift up the conquered peoples to her level by impart ing to them her laws and civilization. Her body Of law was her great est legacy to' the world. The first thirty-one subjects treated by the following fragments are intended to give some idea Of her legal and constitutional development. The next selection, the Institutes of Jus tinian, still used as a textbook in law schools, properly finds a place here as the final statement and discussion Of Roman law.
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