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...LECTURES ON ANCIENT LAW. V. "Religious Authority." Professor Vinogradoff. North Room Austin Hall...
Professor Paul Vinogradoff, of the University of Oxford, delivered the fourth of his series of lectures on the "Elements of Ancient Law" in the North Lecture Room of Austin Hall last night. The subject of the lecture was "Compromise." Tonight he will lecture on "Religious Authority" in the same room at 8 o'clock...
Professor Vinogradoff said that ancient law was essentially a rule of conduct, which addressed itself to the will and the moral sense of the individual. Legal evolution has been slowly developed from a union of law and right. In Roman times, right often existed without any laws whatever to affect it, and wrong was usually merely the violation of private or individual interest...
Self-help or self-assertion of right, which has not yet entirely disappeared from our systems of law, was a fundamental principle of ancient law. In cases of theft or adultery, an individual was allowed to kill the offender if he could catch him, but if not caught the case had to be referred to trial. Persons who claimed lost property, had the right of taking possession of the property, and justifying their possession afterwards. Ancient law did not depend so much on moral right and claim, as upon the assertion of individual interests...
...LECTURES ON ANCIENT LAW. IV. "Compromise." Professor Vinogradoff. North Room, Austin Hall...