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1 Summary of a Course of Lectures on the Civil Law 1830

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OF
A COURSE OF LECTURES
ON THE
CIVIL LAW.
BY   CHARLES FOLLEN,.JT. U.D.
INTRODUCTION.
GENERAL view pf the science of Law. Natural and Positive
Law. Comparative importance of the different philosophical and
historical branches of Jurisprudence.  Reasons which recom-
mend the Civil Law to the study of every lawyer, and in this
country in particular.  Outline of the fundamental principles of
the Civil Law. Its vindication against the aspersion of favoring
despotism. *
Precise object of these Lectures ; the Civil Law contained in
the Code of the Emperor Justinian, with as much of its history,
as is necessary to explain its practical principles ; and adding the
most important modifications it has received in modern times,
particularly by the Canon Law.  Those parts of the Civil, Law,
which are of practical application in this country, are to be ex-
plained in their details ; of all its other doctrines only the lead-
ing principles, which may impart a clear idea of the whole, will
be noticed
History of the Civil Law. The Roman Law the growth of
one thousand years, from the Code of the Twelve Tables to that
of Justinian. Its gradual progress, and different periods. Code

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