Henry James Sumner Maine Quotes
The Roman Code was merely an enunciation in words of the existing customs of the Roman people. 
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It is true that the aristocracies seem to have abused their monopoly of legal knowledge; and at all events their exclusive possession of the law was a formidable impediment to the success of those popular movements which began to be universal in the western world.
- Henry James Sumner Maine
