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408 HINDOOS. Hindoos, Co-ownership, 261.

simplest form of the Village Community, 262, 265.

Acquisitions of Property and Inheritances, Hindoo distinction between, 281.

Hobbes, his theory of the origin of law, 114.

Homer, his account of the Cyclops quoted, 124.

his description of an ancient lawsuit, 377.

Homeric poems, rudimentary jural ideas afforded by the, 2, 3.

Themis and Themistes, 4, 5.

Homeric words for Custom, 5.

India, heroic and aristocratic eras of the races of, 10.

laws of Menu, 6, 17, 18.

Customary law of, 7.

stage beyond which India has not passed, 23.

Inheritance a form of universal succession, 177.

Roman definition of an Inheritance, 181.

old Roman law of, 189.

and Acquisition, Hindoo differences between, 281.

Injunction of the Court of Chancery, 293.

Institutes of the Roman lawyers, 35.

International law, modern confusion between it and Jus Gentium, 53.

function of the law of Nature in giving birth to modern International Law, 96.

postulates forming the foundation of International Law, 96.

Grotius and his successors, 96.

Dominion, 102.

territorial Sovereignty, 103.

the ante-Grotian system of the Law of Nations, 109.

preparation of the public mindfor the reception of the Grotian system, 110.

success of the treatise "De Jure Belli et Pacis," 111.

points of junction between modern public law and territorial sovereignty, 112.

sources of the mode in case of Capture in War, 46.

Intestacy. See Succession, Intestate.

Ἰσότης, the Greek principle of, 58, 61.

Italy, aristocracies of, 10.

codes of, 17.

instability of society in ancient, 47.

territorial sovereignty of the princes of, 108.

Jews, Wills of the, 197.

Julianus, Salvius, the Prætor, his Edict, 64.

effect of his measures on the Prætorian Edicts, 66.

Jurisconsults, early Roman, 37—39.

later, 41.

Natural Law of the, 76.

Jurisprudence, golden age of Roman, 55.

Jurists, Roman, period of, 66, 68.

Jus Gentium, origin of, 47, et seq.

circumstances of the origin of, 50.

how regarded by a Roman, 51.

and by a modern lawyer, 51.

difference between the Jus Gentium and the Jus Naturale, 52, 53.

point of contact between the old Jus Gentium and the Jus Naturale, 58.

difference between the Jus Gentium and the Quiritarian law, 59.

influence of the, on modern civilisation, 103.

Jus Feciale, or International Law of the Romans, 53.

Jus Naturale, or Law of Nature, 52.

difference between the Jus Naturale and the Jus Gentium, 53.

Greek conceptions of Nature and her law, 53.

point of contact between the old Jus Gentium and the Law of Nature, 58.

modern history of the Law of Nature, 73.

Natural law of the Roman Jurisconsults, 76.

ancient counterpart of Benthamism, 79.

vastness of the influence of the Law of Nature on modern society, 80.

history of the Law of Nature, 80, et seq.

pre-eminence given to Natural law in France, 85.