Roman law, Roman and barbarian law, 296.
Roman Contracts, 314, et seq.
the Four Contracts, 325.
connection between Theology and Roman law, 355.
causes of improvement in Roman law, 361.
Roman law in the Eastern Empire, 363.
Civil Wrongs of the Roman law, 370.
the Legis Actio Sacramenti, 375.
old Roman Criminal Jurisprudence, 382.
extreme multiplicity of Roman criminal tribunals, 390.
results traceable to the Quæstiones, 391.
Romans causes of the rapid progress of the Stoical philosophy amongst the, 55.
their progress in legal improvement, 57.
Rome, immigration of foreigners into, 46, 47.
exclusion of, under the early Republic, 46.
See of, origin of the tendency to attribute secular superiority to the, 108.
decline of ecclesiastical influence in international questions, 110.
early political ideas of, 130.
Rousseau, J. J., influence of his writings, 87.
his doctrine of an original Social Compact, 308, 309.
Russian villages. Co-ownership of the occupiers of, 266.
Sacra, or Family Rites, of the Romans, 6, 7, 27, 191, 192.
of the Hindoos, 192.
Sacramental Action of the ancient Romans, 48.
Salic law, origin of the, 157.
Savigny, on Possession and Property, 290, 291.
his aphorism on the origin of property, 254.
Scævola, Q. Mucius, his Manual of the Civil Law, 40, 41.
Scandinavian nations, their laws respecting the Perpetual Tutelage of Women, 153, 159.
Sclavonian laws respecting the property of families, 268.
Sealing, first appearance of, in jurisprudence, as a mode of authentication, 210.
Sin, mortal and venial, casuistical distinction between, 351.
Sins known to primitive jurisprudence, 371.
Slavery, ancient, 162.
under the Romans, 163.
in the United States of America, 163.
Socage, English law of, 232.
Social Compact, Rousseau's doctrine of an original, 308, 309, 345.
Dr. Whewell quoted, 347.
Societies, stationary and progressive, 22.
difference between stationary and progressive societies, 23.
agencies by which Law is brought into harmony with Progressive Societies, 25.
perils of early, 75.
primitive, 120.
early moral doctrines, 127.
early political ideas, 128.
fiction of Adoption, 130.
foundation of Aristocracies, 132.
principle of Local Contiguity, 132.
the ancient Family, 153.
the Patria Potestas, 133.
agnatic and cognatic relationships, 146.
Guardianship of Women, 153.
ancient Roman Marriage, 154.
Master and Slave, 162.
uniformity of movement of the progressive societies, 168.
disintegration of the Family, 169.
movement of societies from status to contract, 170.
Universal Succession, 177, 179, 181.
primitive society and universal succession, 183.
the ancient family a corporation, 184.
Society in primitive times not a collection of individuals, but an aggregation of families, 126.
Solon, Attic code of, 16.
"Sophismes Anarchiques" of Dumont, remarks on, 92.
Sovereign, origin of the doctrine that the monarch is the fountain of justice, 396.
