Roman Law and the Legal World of the Romans

Roman Law and the Legal World of the Romans

Thus, at the level both of practice and of education, we have a similar situation. Nearly all our evidence comes from a limited, elevated stratum of the population. Nonetheless, we must sup pose that there was substantial legal activity, both educational and practical, at lower levels. While it is not impossible that much of this lost legal activity paralleled that at the higher lev els, we have little reason to assume that that is the case.

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