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Roman law
noun
- the system of jurisprudence elaborated by the ancient Romans, a strong and varied influence on the legal systems of many countries.
Roman law
noun
- 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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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.
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This was especially the case in all the countries in which the ideas of publicists were the offspring of the Roman Law.
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He and the other glossatores and post-glossatores considered Roman Law the ratio scripta, the law par excellence.
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On the whole, such application is correct in so far as those rules of Roman Law are full of common sense.
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In the Roman Law, an insolvent inheritance was known by an expressive phrase as damnosa hreditas.
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