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Excerpt from The History of Roman Law From the Text of Ortolan's Histoire De La Législation Romaine Et Généralisation Du Droit (Edition of 1870): Translated With the Author's Permission and Supplemented by a Chronometrical Chart of Roman History This gleam of light is the ray thrown by history on the past. It is the only guide a nation has in its progress through the present towards its future destiny. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.