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derecho romano The legal code of ancient Rome; codified under Justinian; the basis for many modern systems of civil law.
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It is against Roman law to execute a female virgin, he said.
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The technical ingenuities of Roman law were exhausted to shield the culprit.
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The Roman law regarded an excommunicated citizen as civilis mortuus, legally dead.
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The Greek edicts and novels of Justinian's successors are mainly Roman law.
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Development of the idea of contract in Roman law; mediaeval charters
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The age of majority for most civil law purposes is 18 years.
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But even then, ecclesiastical law and civil law were never quite one.
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I tried to make the distinction between civil law and religious law.
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Bulloch can be considered as the creator of civil law in Penguinia.
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The civil law has absolutely nothing to say on the marriage question.
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The legal system is said to be based on the Justinian code.
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The importance of the Justinian Code, however, is not that of mere history.
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The law was finally adjusted in the Justinian Code, by a compromise permitting six per cent.
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A new code of laws was made by great jurists, on the principles of the Justinian Code.
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The Justinian code -the system of law she developed with Justinian, her husband and co-ruler -underpins much of European law.
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They first collected and reduced the imperial constitutions from the time of Hadrian downwards, which was promulgated as the " Justinian Code."
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The Theodosian Code, of 438 A.D., and the Justinian Code, of 528 and 534 A.D., were the final results.
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In the very year, and at the same time, that Justinian and Theodora were preparing the Justinian Code, Benedict was busy devising "The Monastic Rules."