Principles and Maxims of Jurisprudence

The legal maxims of Roman law. Originally published: London: John W. Parker and Son 1856. xxiv 408 pp.In this study of important principles and maxims of Roman law Phillimore provides commentary on selected maxims of Papinian Ulpian Paulus Scaevola Marcianus and Gaius; sets forth rules for the interpretation of law contracts and wills and discusses arguments used in the Pandects (Justinians Digest). With a table of cases. br> JOHN GEORGE PHILLIMORE [1808-1865] (son of Joseph Phillimore editor of admiralty reports) was an English jurist called to the Bar in 1832 who later became a Reader in Constitutional Law and Legal History to the Inns of Court.