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Roman law

noun

  1. the system of jurisprudence elaborated by the ancient Romans, a strong and varied influence on the legal systems of many countries.


Roman law

noun

  1. the system of jurisprudence of ancient Rome, codified under Justinian and forming the basis of many modern legal systems
  2. another term for civil law
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Word History and Origins

Origin of Roman law1

First recorded in 1650–60
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Example Sentences

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.

He and the other glossatores and post-glossatores considered Roman Law the ratio scripta, the law par excellence.

On the whole, such application is correct in so far as those rules of Roman Law are full of common sense.

In the Roman Law, an insolvent inheritance was known by an expressive phrase as damnosa hreditas.

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