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Roman law has now, for a long coure of centuries, been pread over nearly all Europe. In ome countries it has formed the whole (or almot the whole) law of the tate; both as to public government, and private rights. And there is no country (not excepting even England itelf; where, at many memorable periods, a ignal oppoition has been made to the public reception of this ytem), in which it does not, in a very coniderable Rh