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Definition of Roman law

1. Noun. The legal code of ancient Rome; codified under Justinian; the basis for many modern systems of civil law.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Roman Law

Literary usage of Roman law

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The History of English Law Before the Time of Edward I. by Frederick Pollock, Frederic William Maitland (1895)
"-X In no other age, since the classical days of Roman law, has so large a part of the ... Roman law On the continent of Europe Roman law had never perished ..."

2. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"The Roman law worked its way into Scotland by way of France. ... "In Scotland a knowledge of the Roman law has always been regarded as the best introduction ..."

3. The Institutes: A Textbook of the History and System of Roman Private Law by Rudolf Sohm, Bernhard Erwin Grüber (1907)
"The Reception of Roman law in Germany. THE great movement in the history of European ... From that time onwards Roman law has been an ingredient in the law ..."

4. The Institutes: A Textbook of the History and System of Roman Private Law by Rudolf Sohm, Bernhard Erwin Grüber (1907)
"What had been gradually preparing at the close of the Middle Ages was accomplished in the course of the sixteenth century, and Roman law was definitely ..."

5. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"The Burgundian laws also show literal excerpts from the Roman law. Roman law is found also in the Bavarian code composed in the 7th century, ..."

6. The Classical Heritage of the Middle Ages by Henry Osborn Taylor (1901)
"Besides these marks of Roman influence, even the Lex Salica, the earliest and purest of the Germanic codes, shows some slight traces of Roman law.1 The same ..."

7. The Classical Heritage of the Middle Ages by Henry Osborn Taylor (1911)
"In Italy, however, the Roman law as applied was drawn from the ... Some knowledge of Roman law always existed in Italy and other parts of Western Europe; ..."

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