Roman law

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Roman law is the ancient legal system of the Roman Empire that profoundly influenced the development of civil law traditions and many modern legal systems worldwide.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf civil law tradition
historical legal system
legal system
appliedIn Roman Empire
Roman Republic
codifiedBy Justinian I
codifiedIn Corpus Juris Civilis
countryOfOrigin Ancient Rome
linked to: Roman Antiquity
developedFrom Roman customary practices
edicts of the praetors
imperial constitutions
senatus consulta
statutes of the Roman assemblies
earliestCodification Twelve Tables
linked to: Roman law
follows civil law tradition
hasPart Roman contract law
Roman criminal law
Roman family law
linked to: Roman law

Roman inheritance law
Roman procedural law
Roman property law
linked to: Roman law

customary law
imperial legislation
ius civile
ius gentium
ius naturale
praetorian law
influenced Latin American legal systems
canon law
civil law
continental legal systems
international law doctrines
modern European legal systems
influencedBy Greek legal ideas
Hellenistic legal practice
keyConcept contract
delict
legal personality
manumission
obligations
ownership
patria potestas
possession
servitudes
succession
language Latin
revivalCenter University of Bologna
revivedIn medieval universities
studiedIn faculties of law
TwelveTablesPromulgatedIn 449 BC

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Roman-Dutch law hasOrigin Roman law
Roman Empire legalSystem Roman law
Roman law hasPart Roman property law
linked to: Roman law
Roman law hasPart Roman family law
linked to: Roman law
Roman law earliestCodification Twelve Tables
linked to: Roman law
Roman Republic legalSystem Roman law
Roman roads regulatedBy Roman law
Edict of Milan category Roman law
Latin usedIn Roman law
Napoleonic Code influencedBy Roman law
Roman Antiquity legalSystem Roman law
Montesquieu influencedBy Roman law
Byzantine Empire legalSystem Roman law
Johannes Voet fieldOfWork Roman law
Johannes Voet influencedBy Roman law
Arnold Vinnius fieldOfWork Roman law
Arnold Vinnius influencedBy Roman law tradition
linked to: Roman law
Trial of Jesus legalSystem Roman law
Latin West legalTradition Roman law (revived)
linked to: Roman law
Theodor Mommsen fieldOfWork Roman law
Theodor Mommsen notableWork Römisches Staatsrecht
linked to: Roman law
Theodor Mommsen notableWork Römisches Strafrecht
linked to: Roman law
Digest legalSystem Roman law
Digest legalSystem Byzantine law
linked to: Roman law
Institutes legalSystem Roman law
German Civil Code influencedBy Roman law
Codex Justinianus legalSystem Roman law
Novellae Constitutiones legalSystem Byzantine law
linked to: Roman law
Dorotheus legalTradition Roman law
Theodosian Code legalSystem Roman law
Theophilus fieldOfWork Roman law
Louisiana Civil Code influencedBy Roman law tradition
linked to: Roman law
Roman religion associatedWith Roman law
De jure praedae influencedBy Roman law
Romans knownFor Roman law
Romans developed Roman law
Richard Saller hasWrittenOn Roman law
Siete Partidas influencedBy Roman law
Benedikt Carpzov the Younger influencedBy Roman law tradition
linked to: Roman law
Kingdom of Odoacer legalSystem Roman law
Rooms-Hollands-Regt mainSubject Roman law