Justinian's Digest 1.1.9 Gaius 1 inst.
Omnes
populi, qui legibus
et moribus
reguntur, partim suo proprio, partim communi omnium hominum
iure
utuntur. Nam
quod quisque populus ipse sibi ius
constituit, id ipsius proprium
civitatis
est vocaturque ius
civile, quasi ius
proprium ipsius civitatis: quod vero naturalis ratio inter omnes homines
constituit, id apud omnes peraeque custoditur vocaturque
ius
gentium, quasi quo iure
omnes gentes utuntur
(All
peoples who are ruled by laws and long-standing custom partly use their own
laws and partly the law that is common to all men. The ius that each
nation has constituted for itself for each city is called the ius
civile; almost as if it were a ius proprium of that city. What,
however, the natural reason of men establish and is used by all men equally,
is called the ius gentium, almost as if all human beings use that ius).
Dig.1.1.10pr. Ulpianus 1 reg.
Iustitia
est constans et perpetua voluntas ius
suum cuique tribuendi
(Justice is the constant and perpetual
will of giving everyone their Ius).
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