Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1892 edition. Excerpt: ... FOREWORD. This work is based on the Corpus Juris Civilis for its chief authority. Though the Pandects or Digest have contributed the most of the material, yet the Institutes and Code have furnished a considerable share, and the Novels have in a less degree also contributed to the subject-matter. Other original sources used were "Gaii Institutionum, Commentarii Quatuor;" in the Corpus Juris Rornani Ante Justiniani, Vol. I., p. 1; and Ulpiani Fragmenta Regularurn, ibid., Vol. I., p. 127. Bounce, 1841. There is an English edition of Gaius and Ulpiau, with the Latin text, translated by J. T. Abdy, LL.D., and Bryan Walker, M.A., LL.D., Cambridge, 1874; and a translation of Gaius with the Latin text, by Edward Poste, M.A., Oxford, 1871. The next important source is "Ausfiirliche Erlauterung der Pandecten, nach HeUfeld ein Commentar," by Christian Friedrich von Gliick, (" Voluminous Elucidation of the Pandects, after Hellfeld, a Commentary"). The order and arrangement of Gliick in treating of the subject-matter of testaments, etc., have been adopted in this work, and his matter has been freely used. The second edition of the first volume of Gliick's work appeared in the year 1797, and the work has been continued * by eminent writers to the present day; it numbers about seventy volumes, and is far from completion. Among the works used are the following: "Donelli, Opera Omnia," 12 Vols. Florentiuae, 18-10-1847. (There are other editions of this work.) "Samuelis StryMi, Opera Omnia," 16 Vols., with index. Florentines, 1837-40. (There' is an edition, Wittenberg, 1731.) Also "System des heutigen Rbmischen. Redds," 8 Vols. Berlin, 1840. "Geschichte des Rbmischen Rechtsim Mittetalter," 2d ed., 6 Vols. Heidelberg, 1834. Both of these works are
