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The Library of the World’s Best Literature. An Anthology in Thirty Volumes. 1917.

Ferdinand Walter (1794–1879)

Walter, Ferdinand (väl’ter). A German jurist; born at Wetzlar, Nov. 30, 1794; died at Bonn, Dec. 13, 1879. His principal works are: ‘Text-Book of Canon Law’ (1822); ‘Ancient German Law’ (3 vols., 1824); ‘History of Roman Law down to Justinian’ (1840); ‘History of German Law’ (1853); ‘Sources of Ancient and Modern Ecclesiastical Law’ (1862); ‘Natural Law and Politics in the Light of the Present’ (1863).