Reprint of the uncommon third and final edition. This book grew out of an article in the Encyclpedia Brittanica. An "instant classic," it soon became a fixture on reading lists and bibliographies. According to the Law Quarterly Review, "no one who has read the book can have felt any doubt that the author had mastered his authorities, or that he had a singularly wide and profound knowledge of the continental literature dealing with the subject" (15:198). The second and third editions were equally well-received. The third is the best edition because it contains the equally valuable notes of Goudy and Grant.CONTENTSPART I THE REGAL PERIODCH. I. Social and Political condition of Rome and its population down to the time of Servius TulliusCH. II. Regulatives of public and private orderCH. III. Institutions of the private lawCH. IV. The Servian reformsPART II THE JUS CIVILECH. I. Historical events that influenced the lawCH. II. The twelve tablesCH. III. The private law within and beyond the tablesCH. IV. Judicial procedure under the Decemviral systemCH. V. The stipulation and the legis actio per condictionemPART III THE JUS GENTIUM AND JUS HONORARIUM (Latter half of the Republic)CH. I. The influences that operated on the lawCH. II. Factors of the lawCH. III. Substantive changes in the law during the periodPART IV THE JUS NATURALE AND MATURITY OF ROMAN JURISPRUDENCE (The Empire until the Time of Diocletian)CH. I. Characteristics and formative agencies of the law during the periodCH. II. JurisprudenceCH. III. Substantive changes in the law during the periodCH. IV. Judicial procedurePART VTHE PERIOD OF CODIFICATION (Diocletian to Justinian)CH. I. Historical events that influenced the lawCH. II. Anet-Justinian collections of statute and jurisprudenceCH. III. The Justinian lawCH. IV. The Justinian law-booksAPPENDIXADDITIONAL BY EDITOR OF SECOND EDITIONINDEX