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• Graeco-Roman Institutions, From Anti-Evolutionist Points of View: Roman Law, Classical Slavery, Social Conditions (Oxford: Parker and Co., 1890), by Emil Reich (multiple formats at archive.org)
• A Systematic and Historical Exposition of Roman Law, in the Order of a Code. (including Institutes of Gaius and Justinian translated by Cross; second edition, revised and enlarged; London: W. Maxwell and Son; et al., 1885), by W. A. Hunter, trans. by J. Ashton Cross, contrib. by Gaius and Justinian (page images at HathiTrust)
• Studies in History and Jurisprudence (2 volumes; Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1901), by James Bryce
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
• Studies in History and Jurisprudence (New York and London: Oxford University Press, American branch, c1901), by James Bryce (page images at HathiTrust)

• Scripta Anecdota Glossatorum (in Latin; 3 original volumes published 1888-1901; 2 volumes of incomplete revised edition published 1913-1914), ed. by Giovanni Battista Palmerio and Augusto Gaudenzi
  • original 3 volumes; page images at HathiTrust: US access only
  • revised edition's 2 volumes; page images at HathiTrust: US access only

• Die Römische Agrargeschichte in Ihrer Bedeutung für das Staats- und Privatrecht (in German; text from 1891; this edition 1986), by Max Weber, ed. by Jürgen Deininger (HTML at badw.de)
• Die Römische Agrargeschichte in Ihrer Bedeutung für das Staats- und Privatrecht (in German; Stuttgart: F. Enke, 1891), by Max Weber
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at archive.org

• Roman Law and the British Empire (1950), by Harold A. Innis (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)

• Roman Law and the British Empire (1950), by Harold A. Innis (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)

• British Justice: The Scottish Contribution (Hamlyn Lectures, #13; London: Stevens and Sons, 1961), by T. B. Smith (PDF in the UK)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Cicero's Law: Rethinking Roman Law of the Late Republic (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, c2016), ed. by Paul J. du Plessis (HTML and PDF files at Project MUSE)
• Gai Institutiones: or, Institutes of Roman law (fourth edition, revised and enlarged; Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1904), by Gaius, ed. by E. A. Whittuck, trans. by Edward Poste, contrib. by A. H. J. Greenidge (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Institutes of Justinian (fifth edition, 1913), by Justinian, trans. by John Baron Moyle (Gutenberg text)
• The Institutes of Justinian, Edited as a Recension of the Institutes of Gaius (in Latin, with commentary in English; Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1873), by Justinian and Gaius, ed. by Thomas Erskine Holland (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Institutes of Justinian, Edited As a Recension of the Institutes of Gaius (second edition, in Latin with commentary in English; Oxford: At the Clarendon Press; et al., 1892), by Justinian and Gaius, ed. by Thomas Erskine Holland (page images at HathiTrust)
• Istituzioni di Diritto Romano (2 volumes in Italian: Florence: G. Barbèra, 1906-1908), by Silvio Perozzi
  • both volumes: page images at HathiTrust; US access only
  • Volume 1: multiple formats at archive.org
• Scripta Anecdota Glossatorum (in Latin; 3 original volumes published 1888-1901; 2 volumes of incomplete revised edition published 1913-1914), ed. by Giovanni Battista Palmerio and Augusto Gaudenzi
  • original 3 volumes; page images at HathiTrust: US access only
  • revised edition's 2 volumes; page images at HathiTrust: US access only
• System of the Modern Roman Law (volume 1 (covering Savigny's first 2 books) only volume published of this translation; Chennai: J. Higginbotham, 1867), by Friedrich Karl von Savigny, trans. by William Holloway (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Systematic and Historical Exposition of Roman Law, in the Order of a Code. (including Institutes of Gaius and Justinian translated by Cross; second edition, revised and enlarged; London: W. Maxwell and Son; et al., 1885), by W. A. Hunter, trans. by J. Ashton Cross, contrib. by Gaius and Justinian (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Civil Law, Including The Twelve Tables, The Institutes of Gaius, The Rules of Ulpian, The Opinions of Paulus, The Enactments of Justinian, and The Constitutions of Leo, ed. by S. P. Scott (HTML at constitution.org)
• Fontes Iuris Romani Antejustiniani, in Usum Scholarum (2 volumes in 1, in Latin; Florence: G. Barbèra, 1909), ed. by Salvatore Riccobono, Giovanni Baviera, and Contardo Ferrini (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Responsa: In Quibus Arduae Inprimis, Tam Spiritualium, Quam Secularium, Civilium et Criminalium Causarum, Quaestiones, Atque Incidentes Quotidie Gravisssimorum Negotiorum Controversiae, Iodicio Exquisitissimo, Diligentiaq, Summa, Pertractantur (2 volumes in 1, in Latin; Frankfurt am Main, Germany: N. Hoffmann and P. Kopffij, 1608-1609), by Jakob Thoming, contrib. by Abel Strasburg (page images at HathiTrust)

• Digesto Romano-Español: Traducido del Latín Al Castellano y Adicionado con Las Oportunas Variantes del Derecho Nacional (second edition, 2 volumes in Spanish; Madrid: Viuda de Domínguez, 1856), by Juan Sala, ed. by Pedro López-Claros and Francisco Fabregas del Pilar (page images at HathiTrust)

• Leges Publicae Populi Romani: Elenco Cronologico con una Introduzione Sull'Attività Legislativa dei Comizi Romani (in Italian; Milan: Società Editrice Libraria, 1912), by Giovanni Rotondi (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• The Civil Law, Including The Twelve Tables, The Institutes of Gaius, The Rules of Ulpian, The Opinions of Paulus, The Enactments of Justinian, and The Constitutions of Leo, ed. by S. P. Scott (HTML at constitution.org)
• Fontes Iuris Romani Antejustiniani, in Usum Scholarum (2 volumes in 1, in Latin; Florence: G. Barbèra, 1909), ed. by Salvatore Riccobono, Giovanni Baviera, and Contardo Ferrini (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Fontes Iuris Romani Antiqui (fifth edition, in Latin and Greek; Freiburg im Breisgau: I. C. B. Mohr, 1887), ed. by Carl Georg Bruns and Theodor Mommsen (page images at HathiTrust)
• Gai Codex Rescriptus in Bibliotheca Capitulari Ecclesiae Cathedralis Verenensis Distinctus Numero XV (13), Cura et Studio Eiusdem Bibliothecae Custodis, Phototypice Expressus (in Latin; Leipzig: K. W. Hiersemann, 1909), by Gaius, contrib. by Antonio Spagnolo and Saint Jerome (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A Tabula de Bronze de Aljustrel, Lida, Deduzida e Commentada em 1876: Memoria Apresentada á Academia Real das Sciencias de Lisboa (in Portuguese; Lisbon: Typographia da Academia, 1880), by Sebastião Philippes Martins Estácio da Veiga
  • multiple formats at Google
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at archive.org; some images missing

• Methodus Iuris Controversi, in Sex Libros Distincta, Nunc Denuò ab Autore Recognita, & Vigintiquatuor Authorum Accessione Aucta; Cum Ratione Iuris Controversi cum Iudicio Legendi, et in Iudicando Sequendi, Operi Praefixa (in Latin; Basel, Switzerland: Per Hieronymum Gemusaeum, 1599), by Nikolaus Vigel (page images at HathiTrust)

• Annales Tractatus Iuris de Aetate ad Omnes Humanos Actus Requisita (in Latin; Rome: J. Corbi, 1669), by Diego de Narbona (page images at HathiTrust)

• Die Römische Agrargeschichte in Ihrer Bedeutung für das Staats- und Privatrecht (in German; text from 1891; this edition 1986), by Max Weber, ed. by Jürgen Deininger (HTML at badw.de)
• Die Römische Agrargeschichte in Ihrer Bedeutung für das Staats- und Privatrecht (in German; Stuttgart: F. Enke, 1891), by Max Weber
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at archive.org

• Institutionen des Römischen Zivilprozessrechts (in German; Munich: M. Hueber, 1925), by Leopold Wenger (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Der Judikationsbefehl der Römischen Prozesse; mit Beiträgen zur Scheidung des Privaten und Öffentlichen Rechtes (in German; Vienna: In Kommission bei A. Hölder, 1921), by Moriz Wlassak (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Commentarius ad Pandectas, Translated into English: Of the Direct and Indirect Actions of Mandate (Book XVII, Title I); The Action of Partnership (Book XVII, Title II) (Cape Town: J.C. Juta, 1879), by Johannes Voet, trans. by J. Rose-Innes (page images at HathiTrust)

• Jural Relations, or, The Roman Law of Persons as Subjects of Jural Relations: Being a Translation of the Second Book of Savigny's System of the Modern Roman Law (London: Wildy and Sons, et al., 1884), by Friedrich Karl von Savigny, trans. by W. H. Rattigan (page images at HathiTrust)

• La Violence en Droit Criminel Romain (in French; Paris: Librairie Plon, 1915), by Jean Coroï (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Horace and the Gift Economy of Patronage (Berkeley: University of California Press, c2001), by Phebe Lowell Bowditch (frame-dependent HTML with commentary at UC Press)

• Der Judikationsbefehl der Römischen Prozesse; mit Beiträgen zur Scheidung des Privaten und Öffentlichen Rechtes (in German; Vienna: In Kommission bei A. Hölder, 1921), by Moriz Wlassak (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Le Droit Civil Romain d'Après l'Ecloga (in French; Bordeaux: Y. Cadoret, 1902), by François Dupouy (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Civil Law, Including The Twelve Tables, The Institutes of Gaius, The Rules of Ulpian, The Opinions of Paulus, The Enactments of Justinian, and The Constitutions of Leo, ed. by S. P. Scott (HTML at constitution.org)

• Jural Relations, or, The Roman Law of Persons as Subjects of Jural Relations: Being a Translation of the Second Book of Savigny's System of the Modern Roman Law (London: Wildy and Sons, et al., 1884), by Friedrich Karl von Savigny, trans. by W. H. Rattigan (page images at HathiTrust)

• Commentarius ad Pandectas, Translated into English: Of the Direct and Indirect Actions of Mandate (Book XVII, Title I); The Action of Partnership (Book XVII, Title II) (Cape Town: J.C. Juta, 1879), by Johannes Voet, trans. by J. Rose-Innes (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Vestal and the Fasces: Hegel, Lacan, Property, and the Feminine (Berkeley: University of California Press, c1998), by Jeanne Lorraine Schroeder (frame-dependent HTML with commentary at UC Press)

• Niccola Nicolini e Gli Studii Giuridici Nella Prima Metà del Secolo XIX: Scritti e Lettere (in Italian; Naples: R. tipografia F. Giannini e Figli, 1907), by Niccola Nicolini, ed. by Fausto Nicolini
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• The Path of the Law, by Oliver Wendell Holmes (Gutenberg text)
• Lectures on the Early History of Institutions, by Henry Sumner Maine (text files at McMaster)
• System der Subjektiven Öffentlichen Rechte (in German; Freiburg: J. C. B. Mohr, 1892), by Georg Jellinek (page images at HathiTrust)

• History and Power in the Study of Law: New Directions in Legal Anthropology (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c1989), ed. by June Starr and Jane Fishburne Collier (PDF and Epub with commentary at Cornell Open)

• The Catholic Conception of International Law: Francisco de Vitoria, Founder of the Modern Law of Nations; Francisco Suárez, Founder of the Modern Philosophy of Law in General and in Particular of the Law of Nations (Washington: Georgetown University Press, 1934), by James Brown Scott (page images at HathiTrust)
• Histoire du Droit des Gens et des Relations Internationales (in French, 18 volumes (some in the second edition); Brussels: Meline, Cans and Co., 1861-1870), by F. Laurent (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Romance of the Law Merchant: Being an Introduction to the Study of International and Commercial Law, With Some Account of the Commerce and Fairs of the Middle Ages (London: Sweet and Maxwell Ltd., 1923), by Wyndham Anstis Bewes, contrib. by Richard Atkin (page images at HathiTrust)

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