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Excerpt from The Institutes of Gaius (Extracts), Vol. 45: The Digest; De Verborum Obligationibus 1. All nations, that are governed by laws and customs, make use of a system which is partly of their own creation and partly based upon the general usages of mankind: and that part of their law which each community constructs for itself, and which is part of its national development, is distinguished by the name of civil law (jus civile), in as much as it is the law peculiar to that state (civitas) itself; that part, however, which the dictates of natural justice have established amongst all mankind, is observed by almost all peoples, and is called the law of nations (jus gentium), in as much as it is made use of by every community. So the Roman people make use of laws that are partly peculiar to themselves and partly common to all nations. 2. The Romans make their laws by statute (lex), by the vote of the commons (plebiscitum), by act of Senate (senatus consultum), by the decree of the Emperor (constitutio principis), by edicts promulgated by officials to whom the right to issue edicts (jus Edicendi)is granted, and by answers of those learned in the law (responsa prudentium). 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.