| GAI INSTITUTIONUM COMMENTARII QUATTUOR | ||||||||||||
| Gaius' Institutes | ||||||||||||
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The
Institutes of Gaius are divided into four books : the first treating
of persons and the differences of the status they may occupy in the
eye of the law ; the second of things, and the modes in which
rights over them may be acquired, including the law relating to wills ;
the third of intestate succession and of obligations ; and the
fourth of actions and their forms. The work was lost to modern scholars,
until, in 1816, a manuscript was discovered by Barthold-Georges Niebuhr
in the chapter library of Verona, in which some of the works of St
Jerome were written over some earlier writings, which proved to be
the lost work of Gaius. |
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| Polenaar's edition • Seckel & Kuebler's edition | ||||||||||||