Then he launched into a passionate argument about the law, in which he claimed that the law, the ius civile, was an independent body of rules and institutions which formed ‘the bonds of social welfare and life’. It was the basis for rights to ownership and legal relations. Law was the ‘incorruptible guarantor’ of these rights, he claimed, and its rules had to be ‘uniform among all and identical for everyone’, that is, set apart from ordinary political and social life. He continued by emphasizing the importance of the jurists. They stood between the law and the courts, he said, which are the
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