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till the end of a calamitous period of fifty-two years, that mankind recovered their health, or the air resumed its pure and salubrious quality. No facts have been preserved to sustain an account, or even a conjecture, of the numbers that perished in this extraordinary mortality. I only find, that during three months, five, and at length ten, thousand persons died each day at Constantinople; that many cities of the East were left vacant, and that in several districts of Italy the harvest and the vintage withered on the ground. The triple scourge of war, pestilence, and famine, afflicted the subjects of Justinian; and his reign is disgraced by the visible decrease of the human species, which has never been repaired in some of the fairest countries of the globe.
Chapter XLIV * :
Idea Of The Roman Jurisprudence.
Part I. Idea Of The Roman Jurisprudence. -- The Laws Of The Kings - - The Twelve Of The Decemvirs. -- The Laws Of The People. -- The Decrees Of The Senate. -- The Edicts Of The Magistrates And Emperors -- Authority Of The Civilians. -- Code, Pandects, Novels, And Institutes Of Justinian: -- I. Rights Of Persons. -- II. Rights Of Things. -- III. Private Injuries And Actions. -- IV. Crimes And Punishments. The vain titles of the victories of Justinian are crumbled into dust; but the name of the legislator is inscribed on a fair and everlasting monument. Under his reign, and by his care, the civil jurisprudence was digested in the immortal works of the Code, the Pandects, and the Institutes: the public reason of the Romans has been silently or studiously transfused into the