NOUN
- the legal code of ancient Rome; codified under Justinian; the basis for many modern systems of civil law
How To Use Roman law In A Sentence
- Chthonic law can't be closed; the roman law of the jurists had no mechanism for radical change; hence no mechanism for anything as radical as closure.
- In systems based on Roman law, a landowner always had dominium.
- under Roman law addiction was the justification for slavery
- The Roman law system is historically the most important and influential of all the historic legal systems.
- Roman law, which he knew quite a lot about, he treated with deep respect as indispensable for the coherence of society.
- Whereas the Roman Law assigns to the term ‘intent to get married,’ an emotive or affective quality is what the canonists now sought to convey.
- A modern exemplar is Peter Birks, who was the leading unjust enrichment (restitution) scholar in the English speaking world (as well as being a leading scholar on civil law and roman law). Balkinization
- Europe of the Roman Law (from the twelfth century) to disavow judicial precedent as a source of law, though in reconciling Roman law with custom, judicial ac - ceptance of custom was recognized. LEGAL PRECEDENT
- Countercharge system, a very useful system in practice, can be traced back to offset plea in Roman law about 1,300 years ago.
- The agnates, who were an important class of kinsmen, in the early Roman law were cognates connected through males either by blood relationship or by the artificial tie of agnation. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy