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I need hardly say that the publication of the Twelve Tables is not the earliest point at which we can take up the history of law.

The ancient Roman code belongs to a class of which almost every civilised nation in the world can show a sample, and which, so far as the Roman and Hellenic worlds were concerned, were largely diffused over them at epochs not widely distant from one another.

They appeared under exceedingly similar circumstances, and were produced, to our knowledge, by very similar causes.

Unquestionably, many jural phenomena lie behind these codes and preceded them in point of time.

Not a few documentary records exist which profess to give us information concerning the early phenomena of law; but, until philology has effected a complete analysis of the Sanskrit literature, our best sources of knowledge are undoubtedly the Greek Homeric poems, considered of course not as a history of actual occurrences, but as a description, not wholly idealised, of a state of society known to the writer.