Excerpt from The Roman Law of Damage to Property: Being a Commentary on the Title of the Digest Ad Legem Aquiliam (IX. 2) The Board of the Faculty of Law in the University of Oxford, being convinced that a more thorough knowledge of Roman law would be the best means of advancing a scientific understanding and culture of English law, has recently encouraged candidates in the Final School of Jurisprudence to exhibit a knowledge of some portion of the Digest, and has selected for that purpose the title 'Ad legem Aquiliam, ' considering that it contains, perhaps more fully than any other title in the Digest, the chief materials referring to one particular topic, viz. the Roman law of damage to property. Intending to furnish the student with the necessary help in attaining this knowledge, I had to take into account that my book is to be a text-book for students who only know the elements of Roman law, as they are explained in lectures on the Institutes, whilst I had to explain a particular topic in full detail, and in the various relations in which it is dealt with in the Digest. It is due to these circumstances that I have taken great pains to bring out my points very fully, and it even may be that I have gone too far in doing so, but I thought it best to err, if anywhere, on the side of over-fulness. Another point which was to be considered is the peculiar method in which topics of Roman law are dealt with in this country. Usually they are explained in the form of a commentary on the Roman texts, although it is at the same time recognised that a systematic exposition, which deals exhaustively with a whole topic under certain distinct headings, is preferable. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.