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Show Ar.cicnis Thorough in Drawing Up Contract A bronze tablet dating back to 11T B. C. holds, we are told, the earliest recorded civil Judgment now extant. Found near Genoa, it represents a formal Judgment of arbitration between be-tween two local tribes contending over the boundaries of their lands. The record describes the boundaries in language which Is quite comparable with the technical style of conveyances convey-ances used today. There also exists Roman ordinance ordi-nance dated 105 B. C, giving specifications specifi-cations for a contract to build a gate way in a wall abutting on a highway in the town of Puteolls, and in this contract are revealed all the expedients expedi-ents of long experience and careful draftsmanship which we modems are accustomed to expect In such transactions.. trans-actions.. The specifications are so complete com-plete that archeologlsts have been aide to restore the entire structure. |