Note 91 — XII THE METHODS OF LEGAL SCIENCE

There was practically only one set of laws or customs belonging to highly civilized communities which the Romans could compare with their own law, those, namely, which they found in the various Greek cities. These laws and customs, though varying a good deal in detail, from city to city, seem to have borne a family likeness to one another. The laws of the Italic cities were probably on the whole similar to those of Rome herself. But the customs of the Carthaginians, of the Syrians, and of the Egyptians, had many peculiar features.