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The ancient codes were doubtless originally suggested by the discovery and diffusion of the art of writing.

The epoch of Customary Law, and of its custody by a privileged order, is a very remarkable one.

The movement of the progressive societies has hitherto been a movement from Status to Contract.

The most celebrated system of jurisprudence known to the world begins, as it ends, with a Code.

The Roman Code was merely an enunciation in words of the existing customs of the Roman people.

The Roman jurisprudence has the longest known history of any set of human institutions.

When primitive law has once been embodied in a Code, there is an end to what may be called its spontaneous development.