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Roman law is the legal system of ancient Rome, including the legal developments spanning over a thousand years of jurisprudence, from the Twelve Tables, to the Corpus Juris Civilis ordered by Eastern
Title page of a late 16th-century edition of the Digesta, part of Emperor Justinian's Corpus Juris Civilis
Corpus Juris Civilis
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The Corpus Juris Civilis is the modern name for a collection of fundamental works in jurisprudence, enacted from 529 to 534 by order of Roman Emperor Justinian I. It is also sometimes referred to meto
Roman law
…system of ancient Rome, including the legal developments spanning over a thousand years of jurisprudence, from the Twelve Tables (c. 449 BC), to the Corpus Juris Civilis (AD 529) ordered by Eastern Roman emperor Justinian I. Roman law also denoted the legal system applied in most of Western Europe until the end of the…
Corpus Iuris Civilis, 1583
Justinian I depicted on a mosaic in the church of San Vitale, Ravenna, Italy
13th-century manuscript of the Codex with the glossa ordinaria on the margins.
Digest excerpt (D. 6.1) from the 6th-century Littera Florentina.