"..personal credit was guaranteed in the most summary and extravagant fashion; for the law entitled the creditor to treat his insolvent debtor like a thief, and granted to him in sober earnest by legislative enactment what Shylock, half in jest, stipulated for from his mortal enemy, guarding indeed by special clauses the point as to cutting off too much more carefully than did the Jew."
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Character of Roman law in relation to Debt in the Roman Kingdom.
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Theodor Mommsen
1817 – 1903
deutscher Historiker, Nobelpreisträger für Literatur 1902
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