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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1901 Excerpt: ...and he is known by no other title than Gains, or Caius. He is believed to have lived in the reign of Marcus Aurelius. The history of Gaius' Institutes is remarkable. In 1816, Niebuhr was sent to Rome by the king of Prussia. On his way thither, he spent two days in the cathedral library of Verona, and at this time discovered these Institutes, which had been lost to the jurists of the middle ages. In 1817, the Royal Academy of Berlin charged Goeschen, Bekker, and Hollweg with the duty of transcribing the discovered manuscript. In 1819, Goeschen gave the first completed edition, as far as the manuscript could be deciphered, to his fellow jurists. It created an unusual sensation, and became a fruitful source of comment. It formed a new era in the study of Roman law. It gave the modern jurist the signal advantage of studying the source of the Institutes of Justinian. It is believed by the best modern scholars that Gains' was the first original tractate of the kind, not being compiled from former publications. The language of Gaius is clear, terse, and technical.--evidently written by a master of law, and a master of the Latin tongue. The Institutes were unquestionably practical. There is no attempt at criticism or philosophical discussion. The disciple of Sabinus is content to teach law as he finds it. Its arrangement is solid and logical, and Justinian follows it with an almost servile imitation. The best editions of Gaius are Goeschen's second edition. Berlin. 1824, in which the text was again collated by Bluhme, and the '. third edition of Goeschen, Berlin, 1842, ed: ited by Lachman from a critical revision by Goeschen, which had been interrupted by his death. In France, Gaius attracted equal.attention, and we have three editions and translations: Boulet, Par...