Download or read book Institutiones written by Gaius and published by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.. This book was released on 2004 with total page 700 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mears, T. Lambert, Translator. The Institutes of Gaius and Justinian, The Twelve Tables, and the CXVIIIth and CXXVIIth Novels, With Introductions and Translation. London: Stevens and Sons, 1882. lx, 626 pp. Reprint available August 2004 by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. ISBN 1-58477-440-1. Cloth. $150. * With an extensive introduction. Mears arranged both Institutes in parallel columns to facilitate comparisons between them. Passages copied from Gaius are printed in italics. The two Novels, which deal with intestate succession, are included because they supplanted the part of Justinian's Institutes that deals with this subject. This compilation offers an excellent introduction to Roman law and its evolution from the first to sixth centuries, CE.