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A manual of Roman law, the Ecloga / published by the Emperors Leo III and Constantinine V of Isauria at Constantinople A.D. 726, rendered into English by Edwin Hanson Freshfield, M.A.
The Making of Modern Law: Foreign, Comparative, and International Law, 1600-1926 Available online
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Byzantine Empire.
- Series:
- Making of modern law: Foreign, comparative and international law, 1600-1926.
- The making of modern law: Foreign, comparative and international law, 1600-1926
- Standardized Title:
- Laws, etc.
- Language:
- English
- Greek, Ancient (to 1453)
- Subjects (All):
- Roman law.
- Law, Byzantine.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xi, [2], 151 pages).
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge [Cambridgeshire] : University Press, 1926 (W. Lewis)
- Contents:
- Preface
- Introduction
- The Ecloga
- Appendix.
- Notes:
- "It (the Ecloga) is moreover the first Christian law book, the first, as the emperor explains in his title and preamble, in which an attempt was professedly made to introduce into Roman law some of the principles of Christian equity."--Pref.
- Translation based upon the manuscript in the Athens National library as published by A.G. Monferratus, Athens, 1889.
- Includes index.
- Reproduction of the original from the Yale Law Library.
- "Books consulted": p. [145]-147.
- Local Notes:
- Gift of Edwin Hanson Freshfield 1927.
- OCLC:
- 820921657
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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