- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Legal
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Happiness
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- Nov 07, 2020
Law is stable; the societies we are speaking of are progressive. The greater or less happiness of a people depends on the degree of promptitude with which the gulf is narrowed.
- Doubt
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our authorities leave us no doubt that the trust lodged with the oligarchy was sometimes abused, but it certainly ought not to be regarded as a mere usurpation or engine of tyranny.
- Art
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- Nov 07, 2020
The ancient codes were doubtless originally suggested by the discovery and diffusion of the art of writing.
- Far
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- Nov 07, 2020
The ancient Roman code belongs to a class of which almost every civilised nation in the world can show a sample, and which, so far as the Roman and Hellenic worlds were concerned, were largely diffused over them at epochs not widely distant from one another.
- Order
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- Nov 07, 2020
The epoch of Customary Law, and of its custody by a privileged order, is a very remarkable one.
- Observation
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- Nov 07, 2020