Meanings of roman jurisprudence in English

Nor did Roman jurisprudence culminate in its serene majesty till the time of the emperors.

We have already remarked that in several more external matters Roman jurisprudence was influenced by the Stoa.

Those derive most of their law from France or Spain, and thus remotely from the principles of Roman jurisprudence.

It has probably been adopted from France, as its function in modern civil law was otherwise expressed in Roman jurisprudence.

The body of the law was derived from sources of two distinct kinds, from feudal custom and from Roman jurisprudence.

According to law, torture, the disgrace of the Roman jurisprudence, could not, in any circumstances, be inflicted on an English subject.

Speaking roughly, modern literature may be said to be getting into the state which Roman jurisprudence was in before it was reformed by Justinian.

Students came to this school from all parts of Europe, and through them Roman jurisprudence was carried into, and took root in foreign countries.

His lawyers ransacked both Roman jurisprudence and feudal custom that they might lay before the pope and Christendom plausible reasons for their master's pretensions.

The great practical evil connected with Roman jurisprudence was the intricacy and perplexity and uncertainty of the laws, together with the expense involved in litigation.

Mr. Maine, in his work on "Ancient Law," considers this difference to have been occasioned by habits of thought produced by Roman jurisprudence.

These "Laws of the Twelve Tables" were to Roman jurisprudence what the good laws of Solon (see p. 120) were to the Athenian constitution.

(51) From Appius Claudius date not only the Roman aqueducts and highways, but also Roman jurisprudence, eloquence, poetry, and grammar.