The general duties of mankind are imposed by their public and private relations: but their specific obligations to each other can only be the effect
Justinian Code on Inheritances and Legacies
The Voconian law, which abolished female succession, restrained the legacy or inheritance of a woman to the sum of one hundred thousand sesterces, and
Byzantines on Inheriting Property
The jurisprudence of the Romans appears to have deviated from the equality of nature much less than the Jewish, the Athenian, or the English
Byzantine Code on Property
Except in the singular institutions of Sparta, the wisest legislators have disapproved an agrarian law as a false and dangerous innovation.Justinian
Byzantine Code on Family Law
The freedom of love and marriage was restrained among the Romans by natural and civil impediments.Justinian Code Published, featuring a series of
Byzantine Code on Marriage and Divorce
The dignity of marriage was restored by the Christians, who derived all spiritual grace from the prayers of the faithful and the benediction of the
Code on Byzantine Women
But this union on the side of the woman was rigorous and unequal; and she renounced the name and worship of her father's house to embrace a new
New Code Relates Inheritance and Slavery
Justinian respected the rights of patrons, but his indulgence removed the badge of disgrace from the two inferior orders of freedmen: whoever ceased
Manuscript Sources of the New Code
Three hundred and sixty years of disorder and decay accelerated the progress of oblivion; and it may fairly be presumed that of the [Roman] writings