Note 161 The nice and various subject of contracts by consent is spread over four books (xvii. - xx.) of the Pandects, and is one of the parts best deserving of the attention of an English student.
Note: This is erroneously called "benefits." Gibbon enumerates various kinds of contracts, of which some alone are properly called benefits. - W.]

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The History Of The Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire —Fall In The East —Chapter 44