They were not ideal; but they would in more respects than one compare favourably with the similar legislation that was in force, prior to the Civil War, in the American Slave States. I. Iurisprudentiae Anteiustinianae quae Supersunt. ed. Ph. Eduardus Huschke. II. Codex Iustinianus. Recensuit Paulus Krueger. Berolini apud Weidmannos, 1877.