Introduction to Roman Law

341 Pages. Complete and Unabridged. This is beyond all comparison the best first book for students on the Roman Law. It puts into a clear, succinct, and correct form all that is necessary to be known by way of preparation for the study of the subject. The late professor Hadley (of Yale College, America) held a very high place in the judgment of American scholars, and prepared a series of academical lectures on the subject, the success of which it is said suggested their publication. The Professor possessed, it is stated, uncommon clearness of style and method, and power of exact expression, and these qualities are certainly exhibited in a high degree in the present work The subject is first treated historically, and the sources of the Roman Law in its earlier and later periods are traced and described. Here the subject is treated analytically with reference to the law of status and family relations, the law of property, and of rights on property, the law of obligations, and the law of inheritance. –The Law Magazine and Review