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• 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

• 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)

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• 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)
• 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)

• 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)
• 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

• 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)

• 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)

• 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)

• 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)

• Codex Juris Gentium Diplomaticus (2 volumes in Latin (second with different main title); 1693-1700), ed. by Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
  • Volume 1: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume 2: multiple formats at archive.org

• Commentary to the Germanic Laws and Mediaeval Documents (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press; London: H. Milford, Oxford University Press, 1915), by Leo Wiener (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Horoi: Studies in Mortgage, Real Security, and Land Tenure in Ancient Athens, (Hesperia supplement #9; Baltimore: American School of Classical Studies at Athens, 1951), by John V. A. Fine (PDF in Greece)

• Commentary to the Germanic Laws and Mediaeval Documents (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press; London: H. Milford, Oxford University Press, 1915), by Leo Wiener (multiple formats at archive.org)
• London Assize of Nuisance, 1301-1431: A Calendar, ed. by Helena M. Chew and William Kellaway (HTML at British History Online)

• Canada's Legal Pasts: Looking Forward, Looking Back (Calgary: University of Calgary Press, c2020), ed. by Lyndsay Campbell, Ted McCoy, and Mélanie Méthot (PDF with commentary at University of Calgary)

• Magna Carta: A Commentary on the Great Charter of King John (second edition, revised and in part rewritten; Glasgow: J. Maclehose and Sons, 1914), by William Sharp McKechnie
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• The Brehon Laws: A Legal Handbook (first edition, 1894), by Laurence Ginnell (HTML at libraryireland.com)

• Blagochestivi͡eĭshīi͡a Samoderzhavni͡eĭshīi͡a Velikīi͡a Gosudaryni Imperatrit͡sy Ekateriny Vtoryi͡a Uchrezhdenīi͡a dli͡a upravlenīi͡a gubernīĭ Vserossīĭskīi͡a Imperīi, v koikh stolit͡sy. (in Russian; St. Petersburg: Pechatan pri Senati͡e, 1786), by Russia (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Usatges of Barcelona: The Fundamental Law of Catalonia, ed. by Donald J. Kagay (PDF files at Libro)

• Die Stellvertretung im Rechte der Papyri (in German; Leipzig: B. G. Teubner, 1906), by Leopold Wenger
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• Verse and Transmutation: A Corpus of Middle English Alchemical Poetry (Critical Editions and Studies) (Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2013), by Anke Timmermann
  • PDF with commentary at oapen.org
  • page images and PDF at HathiTrust

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