«A legal system cut off from its historical moorings is bound to drift. It may believe itself to be proceeding in the light of pure reason; but that is a…
«A legal system cut off from its historical moorings is bound to drift. It may believe itself to be proceeding in the light of pure reason; but that is a…
Its texts (of Roman law) have constituted a kind of legal supermarket, in which lawyers of different periods have found what the needed at the time. (Peter G. Stein, Roman…