[Footnote 5: Our original text is a fragment de Origine
Juris (Pandect. l. i. tit. ii.) of Pomponius, a Roman
lawyer, who lived under the Antonines, (Heinecc. tom. iii.
syl. iii. p. 66 - 126.) It has been abridged, and probably
corrupted, by Tribonian, and since restored by Bynkershoek
(Opp. tom. i. p. 279 - 304.)]