Lectures by a professor at Moscow University describe the history of the development of civil law in ancient Rome: Influence on the right of the social system (tribal differences, family-tribal life, military-state life, individualism), the oldest history of property law and civil circulation, the history of civil justice, priestly jurisdiction, the criminal nature of penalties, the legislation of the XII tables and the law of the Quirites, formalism, the attitude of the Quirites to peregrines, pontifical jurisprudence, the development of debt relations, the development of property and inheritance law after the publication of the XII tables, the progress of formal transactions (VII table.), Fictions and excerpts, imperial jurisprudence, the powers of a judge regarding the legal qualification of disputed relations and events, personal and general possession, artificial view of the right, etc.