w of Nations (Jus Gentium), incorporation with Roman Law, 36, 37;
origin of, 27-31

Legal fictions, benefit of, 77;
examples in English Law, 18;
in Roman Law, 15, 16;
meaning, useful purpose of, 15, 16

Legis Actio Sacramenti, Gaius on, 220, 221

Legislation, the agent of legal
improvement, 17;
differing from equity, legal fictions, 17, 18

_Lettres Persanes_, 183

Maine, _Cambridge Essays_, 1856, 205, 212

Mancipation, 120, 121, 163-169, 185

Menu, Laws of, 10-12

Montesquieu, 49, 51, 183

Natural Law (Law of Nature), American Law and, 56;
antagonistic to historical method, 53;
confusing past with present, 43;
equality of man, 54-56;
equality of sex, 90;
feudalism, 62, 65;
French history, 47, 48, 50, 53;
French Law, 56;
Greek interpretation of, 44;
Grotian system, 56, 58, 59, 64-66;
incorporated with Roman Law, 36, 37;
influence of Stoics, 32, 33;
Modern International Law, 56-60;
most critical period, 50;
modern society, 54;
occupancy, 145-147, 153;
origin of, 31, 32;
private property, 164;
Rousseau on, 51;
slavery, 95;
territorial sovereignty, 60-63;
Testamentary Law, 103, 104

Occupancy, 144, 145;
in Roman Law, 145

Pascal, _Provincial Letters_, 207

Prescriptions, 167, 168;
and Canon Law, 168

Primogeniture, Celtic customs, 141, 142;
feudal system, 135-137;
Hindoo Law, 134, 137, 141;
Mahometan Law, 142;
Roman Law, 133, 134

Property, natural modes of acquiring, 144

Property Law, ancient Germanic, 165,
ancient Sclavonic, 165;
descent in Middle Ages, 132;
Indian Law, 165;
origin of, 145;
possession, 170, 172;
private, ancient forms of transfer, 160, 162-164;
Roman, 60, 66, 166;
Cessio in Jure, 170;
Edictum Perpetuum, 37;
Emphyteusis, 175-178;
Gaius on, 174;
Justinian, 174;
law of persons and things, 152;
mancipation, 163, 169;
possessory interdicts, 171;
Praetor's interdict, 172;
Res Mancipi, 160-164, 173;
Res Nec Mancipi, 164;
system of farming, 176;
usucapion, 167, 169, 173

Roman Law, _see_ separate headings Contracts, Criminal, Property,
Occupancy, Testamentary;
Decemviral Law, 20;
definition of inheritance, 107;
end of period of jurists, 40;
influence of Praetor, 38;
intestacy, 127-130;
law of inheritance, 111;
Leges Corneliae, 24, 25;
Leges Juliae, 25;
marriage, 91;
obligation in, 190, 191, 195, 197;
Pandects of