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Note 938 — Chapter IV · THE MAGISTRACY (continued 2)

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For the edict as the expression of customary law see Cic. de Invent. ii. 22, 67 “Consuetudine autem jus esse putatur id, quod voluntate omnium sine lege vetustas comprobarit.... Quo in genere et alia sunt multa et eorum multo maxima pars, quae praetores edicere consuerunt.”

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