The Juristic analysis of sovereignty has a history stretching back to the Roman empire. The Roman jurists worked out a theory of Imperium and found the source of law in the will of the prince. In modern times the development of the theory of sovereignty coincided roughly with the growth of the State in power, functions and prestige. From Bodin, through Hobbes and Bentham, this juristic idea reached its climax in John Austin as contained in his lectures on Jurisprudence, published in 1832. Austin endeavoured to build up an exact juristic terminology and to present a clear outline of the organisation of a government's legal power