Chapter 3. Law of Nature and EquityThe theory of a set of legal principles， entitled by their intrinsic superiority to supersede the older law， very e...
Chapter 4. The Modern History of the Law of NatureIt will be inferred from what has been said that the theory which transformed the Roman jurisprudenc...
Chapter 5. Primitive Society and Ancient LawThe necessity of submitting the subject of jurisprudence to scientific treatment has never been entirely l...
Chapter 6. The Early History of Testamentary SuccessionIf an attempt were made to demonstrate in England the superiority of the historical method of i...
Chapter 7. Ancient and Modern Ideas Respecting Wills and SuccessionsAlthough there is much in the modern European Law of Wills which is intimately con...
Chapter 8. The Early History of PropertyThe Roman Institutional Treatises， after giving their definition of the various forms and modifications of own...
Chapter 9. The Early History of ContractThere are few general propositions concerning the age to which we belong which seem at first sight likely to b...
Chapter 10. The Early History of Delict and CrimeThe Teutonic Codes， including those of our Anglo-Saxon ancestors， are the only bodies of archaic secu...
序本书的主要目的，在扼要地说明反映于古代法”中的人类最早的某些观念，并指出这些观念同现代思想的关系。如果没有像罗马法那样的一套法律，本文中企图进行的研究，多数将不能有丝毫希望达到有用的结果。因为在罗马法的最古部分中，有着最久远的古代事物的痕迹，而在其后期规定中，又提供了甚至到现在还支配着...
第一章 古代法典世界上最著名的一个法律学制度从一部法典”（Code）开始，也随着它而结束。从罗马法历史的开始到结束，它的释义者一贯地在其用语中暗示着，他们制度的实体是建筑于十二铜表法” （Twelve Decemviral Tables）、因此也就是建筑于成文法的基础上的。在...