Roman law

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Roman law is the ancient legal system of the Roman Empire that profoundly influenced the development of civil law traditions and many modern legal systems worldwide.


Statements (50)
Predicate Object
instanceOf civil law tradition
historical legal system
legal system
appliedIn Roman Empire
Roman Republic
codifiedBy Justinian I
codifiedIn Corpus Juris Civilis
countryOfOrigin Ancient Rome
developedFrom Roman customary practices
edicts of the praetors
imperial constitutions
senatus consulta
statutes of the Roman assemblies
earliestCodification Twelve Tables
follows civil law tradition
hasPart Roman contract law
Roman criminal law
Roman family law
Roman inheritance law
Roman procedural law
Roman property law
customary law
imperial legislation
ius civile
ius gentium
ius naturale
praetorian law
influenced Latin American legal systems
canon law
civil law
continental legal systems
international law doctrines
modern European legal systems
influencedBy Greek legal ideas
Hellenistic legal practice
keyConcept contract
delict
legal personality
manumission
obligations
ownership
patria potestas
possession
servitudes
succession
language Latin
revivalCenter University of Bologna
revivedIn medieval universities
studiedIn faculties of law
TwelveTablesPromulgatedIn 449 BC

Referenced by (54)
Subject (surface form when different) Predicate
Byzantine Empire
Codex Justinianus
Corpus Juris Civilis
Digest
Digest ("Byzantine law")
Institutes
Kingdom of Odoacer
Novellae Constitutiones ("Byzantine law")
Roman Antiquity
Roman Empire
Roman Republic
Theodosian Code
Trial of Jesus
Western Roman Empire
legalSystem
Arnold Vinnius ("Roman law tradition")
Benedikt Carpzov the Younger ("Roman law tradition")
De iure belli ac pacis
De jure praedae
German Civil Code
Johannes Voet
Louisiana Civil Code ("Roman law tradition")
Montesquieu
Napoleonic Code
Rooms-Hollands-Regt
Siete Partidas
influencedBy
Arnold Vinnius
Johannes Voet
Theodor Mommsen
Theophilus
fieldOfWork
Dorotheus
Latin West ("Roman law (revived)")
Spanish law
legalTradition
Roman law ("Roman property law")
Roman law ("Roman family law")
hasPart
Theodor Mommsen ("Römisches Staatsrecht")
Theodor Mommsen ("Römisches Strafrecht")
notableWork
Francesco De Martino
academicDiscipline
Roman religion
associatedWith
Edict of Milan
category
ancient Italy
culturalInfluenceOn
Latins
culturalLegacy
Italic peoples
cultureInfluenced
Romans
developed
Roman law ("Twelve Tables")
earliestCodification
Selectarum iuris quaestionum libri II
fieldOfStudy
Gnaeus Domitius Ahenobarbus
governed by
Western civilization
hasLegalTradition
Roman-Dutch law
hasOrigin
Richard Saller
hasWrittenOn
Romans
knownFor
Rooms-Hollands-Regt
mainSubject
Roman roads
regulatedBy
Diocletian's price edict
studiedIn
Latin
usedIn

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