Principles and Maxims of Jurisprudence - Paperback

by John George Phillimore (Author)

The legal maxims of Roman law. Originally published: London: John W. Parker and Son, 1856. xxiv, 408 pp.In this study of important principles and maxims of Roman law, Phillimore provides commentary on selected maxims of Papinian, Ulpian, Paulus, Scaevola, Marcianus and Gaius; sets forth rules for the interpretation of law, contracts, and wills and discusses arguments used in the Pandects (Justinian's Digest). With a table of cases. br>
JOHN GEORGE PHILLIMORE 1808-1865] (son of Joseph Phillimore, editor of admiralty reports) was an English jurist called to the Bar in 1832 who later became a Reader in Constitutional Law and Legal History to the Inns of Court.