The penal statutes form a very small proportion of the sixty-two books of the Code and Pandects . . . .Justinian Code Published, featuring a series

The free citizens of Athens and Rome enjoyed in all criminal cases the invaluable privilege of being tried by their country.Justinian Code

A sin, a vice, a crime, are the objects of theology, ethics, and jurisprudence. Whenever their judgments agree, they corroborate each other; but as

In the absence of penal laws and the insufficiency of civil actions, the peace and justice of the city were imperfectly maintained by the private

The execution of the Alban dictator, who was dismembered by eight horses, is represented by Livy as the first and the last instance of Roman cruelty

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

The Voconian law, which abolished female succession, restrained the legacy or inheritance of a woman to the sum of one hundred thousand sesterces, and

The jurisprudence of the Romans appears to have deviated from the equality of nature much less than the Jewish, the Athenian, or the English

Except in the singular institutions of Sparta, the wisest legislators have disapproved an agrarian law as a false and dangerous innovation.Justinian