Roman law

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legal system of ancient Rome and later the Roman and Byzantine Empire

legalization of Christianity in the Roman Empire, 313

Praetor ( , ), also pretor, was the title granted by the government of ancient Rome to a man acting in one of two official capacities: (i) the commander of an army, and (ii) as an elected magistratus (magistrate), assigned to discharge various duties. The functions of the magistracy, the praetura (praetorship), are described by the adjective itself: the praetoria potestas (praetorian power), the praetorium imperium (praetorian authority), and the praetorium ius (praetorian law), the legal precedents established by the praetores (praetors). Praetorium, as a substantive, denoted the location fro

collection of fundamental works in jurisprudence as codified by Justinian

Roman statute

An interregnum (plural interregna or interregnums) is a period of discontinuity or "gap" in a government, organization, or social order. Archetypally, it was the period of time between the reign of one monarch and the next (coming from Latin inter-, "between" and rēgnum, "reign" [from rex, rēgis, "king"]), and the concepts of interregnum and regency therefore overlap. Historically, longer and heavier interregna have been typically accompanied by widespread unrest, civil and succession wars between warlords, and power vacuums filled by foreign invasions or the emergence of a new power.

Compilation of laws of Roman Empire (438)

In ancient Rome, the Latin term '''''' (: ) referred to a town or city. Etymologically, the was a social contract among ('duty holders'), or citizens of the town. The duties () were a communal obligation assumed by the in exchange for the privileges and protections of citizenship. Every citizen was a .

the order of public offices held by politicians in Ancient Rome

In ancient Rome, imperium was a form of authority held by a citizen to control a military or governmental entity. It is distinct from auctoritas and potestas, different and generally inferior types of power in the Roman Republic and Empire. One's imperium could be over a specific military unit, or it could be over a province or territory. Individuals given such power were referred to as curule magistrates or promagistrates. These included the curule aedile, the praetor, the consul, the magister equitum, and the dictator. In a general sense, imperium was the scope of someone's power, and could

Roman law digest

thumb|The Proscribed Royalist, 1651, painted by [[John Everett Millais c. 1853, in which a Puritan woman hides a fleeing Royalist proscript in the hollow of a tree]]

Curia (: curiae) in ancient Rome referred to one of the original groupings of the citizenry, eventually numbering 30, and later every Roman citizen was presumed to belong to one. While they originally probably had wider powers, they came to meet for only a few purposes by the end of the Republic: to confirm the election of magistrates with imperium, to witness the installation of priests, the making of wills, and to carry out certain adoptions.

thumb|Map of Rome in the time of the Roman Republic. The pomerium at that time is marked in pink; the Capitoline Hill|Capitoline and Aventine are extra pomerium, 'beyond the wall', with their boundaries in yellow. The pomerium or pomoerium was a religious boundary around the city of Rome and cities controlled by Rome. In legal terms, Rome existed only within its pomerium; everything beyond it was simply territory (ager) belonging to Rome.

Latin legal term meaning "friend of the court"

elected official in Ancient Rome

wartime principle in international law

edict ending the Diocletianic persecution of Christianity in the East of the Roman Empire

Latin phrase denoting an unnamed person

part of the 6th century codification of Roman law

customs and traditions of ancient Rome

set of speeches given by Marcus Tullius Cicero

Collegiality is the relationship between colleagues, especially among peers, for example a fellow member of the same profession.

The scholars of the 11th- and 12th-century legal schools in Italy, France and Germany are identified as glossators in a specific sense. They studied Roman law based on the Digesta, the Codex of Justinian, the Authenticum (an abridged Latin translation of selected constitutions of Justinian, promulgated in Greek after the enactment of the Codex and therefore called Novellae), and his law manual, the Institutiones Iustiniani, compiled together in the Corpus Iuris Civilis. (This title is itself only a sixteenth-century printers' invention.) Their work transformed the inherited ancient texts into

grouping of Roman citizens

people's assembly in ancient rome

alt=|thumb|250x250px|Leo VI (right) and Basil I (left), from the 12th-century Madrid Skylitzes. The Basilika (, "the imperial [laws]") was a collection of laws completed in Constantinople by order of the Byzantine emperor Leo VI the Wise during the Macedonian dynasty. This was a continuation of the efforts of his father, Basil I, to simplify and adapt the Emperor Justinian I's Corpus Juris Civilis code of law issued between 529 and 534 which had become outdated. The term comes from the Greek adjective Basilika meaning "Imperial (laws or enactments)" and not from the Emperor Basil's name; both

law intended to control consumption, particulary such a law regulating apparel and textiles which may be worn by people of specified social strata

thumb|300px|Representation of a sitting of the Roman Senate: Cicero attacks Catiline, from a 19th-century fresco

"ultimate decree" of the ancient Roman senate

thumb|300px|A Roman military diploma, or certificate of successful military service, granting citizenship to a retiring soldier and the dependents he had with him at the time. The key phrase is "est civitas eis data" where means "citizenship".

latin term from Roman law

statute

statute

Latin phrase, meaning 'public affair'

resolution of the ancient Roman Senate

aspect of history

Superficies is a Latin legal term referring to anything which is placed upon and attached to the ground, and most commonly refers to a building erected on land owned by another.

statute

status in Roman law

any association in ancient Rome that acted as a legal entity

introductory textbook of legal institutions (161 AD)

one of the four components of the “Corpus juris civilis” drafted under the Byzantine emperor Justinian

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Roman law restricting female adornment

ancient Roman set of legal rights

The duumviri (Latin for 'two men'), originally duoviri and also known in English as the duumvirs, were any of various joint magistrates of ancient Rome. Such pairs of Roman magistrates were appointed at various periods of Roman history both in Rome itself and in the colonies and municipia.

tax imposed on Jews in the Roman Empire

In Roman law, mancipatio (f. Latin manus, "hand"; and capere, "to take hold of") was a solemn verbal contract by which the ownership of certain types of goods (res mancipi) was transferred. Mancipatio was also the legal procedure for drawing up wills, emancipating children from their parents, and adoption.

sixth century codification of Roman law

thumb|upright=1.2|Visitors to Los Angeles' Getty Villa, modeled after the [[Villa of the Papyri at Herculaneum, get a glimpse of otium as experienced at an ancient Roman villa.]]

speech by Cicero

statute

Potestas is a Latin word meaning power or faculty. It is an important concept in Roman Law.

The Pandectists were German university legal scholars in the early 19th century who studied and taught Roman law as a model of what they called Konstruktionsjurisprudenz (conceptual jurisprudence) as codified in the Pandects of Justinian (Berman).

The postglossators or commentators formed a European legal school which arose in Italy and France in the fourteenth century. They form the highest point of development of medieval Roman law.

'''''' was the basic form of contract in Roman law. It was made in the format of question and answer.