History of Roman Law with a Commentary on the Institutes of Gaius and Justinian / Andrew Stephenson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Stephenson, Andrew, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Roman law--History.

Roman law.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xviii, 513 pages)

Place of Publication:

Boston : Little, Brown, 1912.

Summary:

In the early ages of the Christian era the Roman empire embraced all the countries around the Mediterranean Sea, together with vast tracts north of the Alps, and stretching in an unbroken line eastward along the Danube to its mouth, and westward and northward to the Atlantic Ocean, St. George's Channel, the Solway Frith, and the North Sea. Or, as Gibbon has it, The empire was about two thousand miles in breadth, from the wall of Antoninus and the north ern limits Of Dacia to Mt. Atlas and the tropic of Cancer; it extended in length more than three thousand miles, from the western ocean to the Euphrates; it was situated in the finest part of the temperate zone, between the twenty-fourth and fifty-sixth degrees of northern latitude; it was supposed to contain about square miles, for the most part of fertile and well cultivated land.

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (Little, Brown, viewed August 1, 2023).