Did Rome Influence The Development Of Corpus Juris Civilis And Civil Law?

2). All of this civil arrest came at a time of war and conflict within Rome; the plebeians rioted in the streets whilst there was an army were outside. This forced the Roman Pontiffs to form a committee in 451 BC, the decemviri, who were given the task of forming a legal code, the Twelve Tables. By the fifth century AD, the Romans had built a one of a kind legal system starting with the Twelve Tables and ending with Corpus Juris Civilis. The twelve tables provided the fundamental ideas seen in civil law, the twelve tables provide the idea that all laws should be written down. This then influences the development of Corpus Juris Civilis and Civil law in which the digests provide laws for the majority of circumstances all written down and accessible to anyone. The Corpus Juris Civilis was compiled under the orders of the Emperor Justinian at Byzantium in about 530 BC. It had a very little impact on the west during that time period as it had been overrun with German tribes. However, there was the Justinian era of legal research and development within Rome. Justinian was one of the most famous Emperors of Rome. Born a Slavonian peasant he was adopted by his uncle, Emperor Justin

The Author was evidently acquainted with the civil law” (8)

Succeeding the Tracatus de legibus was the Treatise of Bracton, on the laws and customs of England, in which about a third of the contents within the treatise are directly influenced or quoted from Roman digests, quite often it contains direct quotes from the summary of Italian Azo, a professor of civil law at Bologna, born in 1150 and a member of the school of Glossators (9).The work seems to be a mixture of adapted Roman Law that fits now into English law or principles of English law added onto Roman law in a combined fusion of the two legal systems.

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