Responsa

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Responsa is a renowned collection of legal opinions and case decisions by the Roman jurist Papinian, influential in the development of Roman and later European law.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Roman legal work
collection of legal opinions
legal treatise
associatedWith Severan dynasty NERFINISHED
author Papinian NERFINISHED
citedIn Digest of Justinian NERFINISHED
contains case decisions
legal opinions
countryOfOrigin Roman Empire NERFINISHED
field Roman law NERFINISHED
law
genre juridical literature
hasAuthor Papinian NERFINISHED
hasCharacteristic case-based analysis
casuistic reasoning
interpretation of statutes and edicts
hasInfluenceOn Digest of Justinian NERFINISHED
Justinianic compilations NERFINISHED
hasReputation highly authoritative in Roman jurisprudence
hasSubject contracts
family law
inheritance law
obligations
property law
hasType juristic responsa collection
historicalSignificance key source for understanding classical Roman law
impact shaped later European civil law doctrines
influenced canon law jurisprudence
civil law tradition
late Roman law
medieval European law
language Latin
legalStatus authoritative source of law in late Roman Empire
legalSystem Roman law NERFINISHED
mainSubject civil law
private law
namedAfter responsa (Latin for answers or opinions)
partOf classical Roman jurisprudence
relatedWork Digest of Justinian NERFINISHED
Quaestiones
studiedIn Roman law scholarship
legal history
timePeriod early 3rd century CE
usedBy Roman judges
Roman jurists
legal practitioners in the Roman Empire
usedIn legal education in the Roman Empire

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Papinian notableWork Responsa