Note 168
Sir William Jones has given an ingenious and
rational Essay on the law of Bailment, (London, 1781, p.
127, in 8vo.) He is perhaps the only lawyer equally
conversant with the year-books of Westminster, the
Commentaries of Ulpian, the Attic pleadings of Isaeus, and
the sentences of Arabian and Persian cadhis.]
The History Of The Decline And
Fall Of The Roman Empire
—Fall In The East
—Chapter 44