- Roman Law. From the Catholic Encyclopedia. In the following article this subject is briefly treated under the two heads of; I. Principles; II.
- The first 250 years of the current era are the period during which Roman law and Roman legal science reached its greatest degree of sophistication.
- However, the codification of Roman law itself took place relatively late. It wasn’t until the turn of the second and third century CE that Roman tourists began writing...
- Roman law, as revealed through ancient legal texts, literature, papyri, wax tablets and inscriptions, covered such facets of everyday Roman life as crime and punishment...
- The Roman idea of law developed gradually. The first Roman laws were a mixture of religious regulations, customary rules, and popular conceptions of justice.
- Roman law, like other ancient systems, originally adopted the principle of personality —that is, that the law of the state applied only to its citizens.
- These became known as the Twelve Tablets, and the Roman law makers put the Twelve Tablets on display in the Roman Forum for all Roman citizens to see.
- Whether in politics, society, science or technology, Roman law has managed to capture the attention of a large number of people around the world.
- As a legal system, Roman law has affected the development of law in most of Western civilization as well as in parts of the East.
- This site provides information on Roman law sources and literature, the teaching of Roman law, and the persons who study Roman law.