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The Civil Law in Its Natural Order
註釋This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1850. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... explanation of the manner in which the texts of the roman law are referred to in the foregoing treatise. The several parts of the Corpus Juris Civilis, which are principally referred to in The Civil Law in its Natural Order, are the Institutes, Digest or Pandects, Code, and Novels. The Institutes are divided into four looks, each of which is divided into titles, which are severally subdivided into sections or paragraphs. The Digest is divided into fifty books, each book into titles, each title into laws (sometimes also called fragments), and many of the laws into sections or paragraphs. Books 30, 31, and 32, which treat of legacies and trusts, are not divided into several titles, but contain each of them a single title only, with the same rubric, namely, de legatis el fideicommissis. The Code is divided into twelve looks, each book into titles, each title into laws, and the laws frequently into paragraphs or sections, in the same manner with the Digest The Novels, or New Constitutions, are numbered, and divided into chapters. The several books, titles, laws, and paragraphs are numbered consecutively. The titles only have a rubric. The general plan of reference to the Institutes, Digest, and Code is by the rubric of the title, or, where the rubric is long, by the first two or three words of it, with the number of the law, and also of the paragraph where the law cited is thus divided. The words of the title are usually abbreviated. Vol. Ii. 58 The Digest is denoted by the letter D.;...