LECTURE, &c.
THE Roman law has now, for a long courſe of centuries, been ſpread over nearly all Europe. In ſome countries it has formed the whole (or almoſt the whole) law of the ſtate; both as to public government, and private rights. And there is no country (not excepting even England itſelf; where, at many memorable periods, a ſignal oppoſition has been made to the public reception of this ſyſtem), in which it does not, in a very conſiderable
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