Roman law
the system of jurisprudence elaborated by the ancient Romans, a strong and varied influence on the legal systems of many countries.
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With him died the best beloved and the most talented of Roman-law professors of modern times.
This was especially the case in all the countries in which the ideas of publicists were the offspring of the Roman law.
August Comte and Positivism | John-Stuart MillHe and the other glossatores and post-glossatores considered Roman law the ratio scripta, the law par excellence.
International Law. A Treatise. Volume I (of 2) | Lassa Francis OppenheimOn the whole, such application is correct in so far as those rules of Roman law are full of common sense.
International Law. A Treatise. Volume I (of 2) | Lassa Francis OppenheimIn the Roman law, an insolvent inheritance was known by an expressive phrase as damnosa hreditas.
Charles Sumner; His Complete Works, Volume III (of 20) | Charles Sumner
British Dictionary definitions for Roman law
the system of jurisprudence of ancient Rome, codified under Justinian and forming the basis of many modern legal systems
another term for civil law
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