Excerpt from The Institutes of Justinian: With English Introduction, Translation, and Notes In the Introduction I have endeavoured to give such a general sketch of Roman law and its history as Will prepare readers for the details of the work itself. The translation aims at rendering the text in language intelligible to those who have not, as well as to those who have, a long ao quaintance with Latin. The notes are intended to embody such information as is necessary to elucidate the text, or to give the results of successive legal changes. In the Summary at the end of the volume I have attempted to arrange in a methodical form the principal contents of the text and the notes. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.