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Excerpt from The History of the Roman or Civil Law: Shewing Its Origins and Progress; How, and When the Several Parts of It Were First Compil'd Tue Force of the Roman Arms, and Extent of theiremptre, made them formidable throughout the whole World; but how much more were they (0 by the Wifdom of their Law: 3 Their very name, methinks, xcommands Refpeét, and every Work that treats of them, for the fake of its Subject, has a kind of Right to a favourable Reception from the Publick. 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.