"The greatest service this book performs is to show how the civil law affected the Roman in his day-to-day activities. Problems such as the relations between master and slave, wills, contracts, and other everyday matters receive full treatment and are illustrated by citations not only from the legal writers, but from actual cases. . . . Cook's versatile use of his material, both secondary and primary, is amazing. . . . A most valuable book which pulls together a vast amount of material not otherwise readily accessible in English into one manageable volume."—The Historian "Here teachers of Roman law and history, as well as beginners in those fields, will find a clear elucidation of legal questions that present themselves to modern students. . . . Crook, writing in a direct and lucid manner, skillfully blends the multiplicity of topical materia into the fabric of the text in a way that produces coherence and integrity."—Classical Journal