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Also known as The Edict of Caracalla. An edict whereby all free men in the Roman Empire were to be given Roman citizenship. This means that all new citizens of the Roman Empire could use ius civile (rather than ius latii or ius gentium) which was more favourable for them as it granted the greatest number of rights and legal equality. For the Roman Empire this had a positive impact in tax revenues. -
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The exact date when the Codex was promulgated is unknown but probably around 291 - 294 AD. It was a collection of constitutions of Roman emperors from the period from 130s to 290s AD -
It is unknown when this compilation of constitutions was published - there are opinions that it was published at the end of the third century or at the beginning of the fourth century. It contains mostly constitutions of Diocletian.
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This was an edict of the Roman Emperor Constantine (and Licinius) that gave legal status to Christianity and ended the persecution of the Christians. It also returned confiscated property to the Christians. Link to a translation of the edict can be found here: https://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/source/edict-milan.asp -
The first law of citation promulgated by Constantine the Great. It ordered that in legal procedures only original works of Papinianus can be used and comments of Papinianus's works shall not be allowed.
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Promulgated also by Constantine the Great this law claimed that all original works of Paulus could be used including Sententiae Pauli.
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An edict of Theodosius I. which made Christianity the state religion of the Roman Empire.
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This was a Roman law from the post-classical period demonstrating the general degradation of jurisprudence. After this law only the works of 5 Roman jurists could be used: Gaius, Papinianus, Modestinus, Ulpianus, and Paulus. It shows that Roman jurisprudence of the time was solely based on repeating already existing opinions and not coming up with new innovative solutions. It was later included in Codex Theodosianus.
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This was a compilation of the Roman laws especially constitutions from the fourth century. It was quite influential and was used also as a source for later Visigoth codes. -
The exact date is unknown but the only surviving text was based on an edition from the 16th century. It was a collection of laws (mostly criminal) that were to be applied to Romans and Barbarians and to settle issues between them.
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The Code of Euric was a very important code of the Visigoths promulgated by the king Euric. The code was based on the Roman law (mostly on Theodosian Code) and the code is only preserved in fragments. Euric also included in this code his own constitutions as well as the constitutions of his predecessors. It applied mostly to Visigoths.
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It was inspired by the previous codifications of Roman law (Codex Theodosianus, Codex Gregorianus and Codex Hermogenianus) and it established rules applicable to the Roman population of the Visigoth kingdom (thus Lex Romana Visigothorum) whereas the Visigoths themselves used Code of Euric. -
Justinian's Code was the first promulgated part of the Corpus Iuris Civilis. This part is a compilation of the Roman law - imperial constitutions dating all the way back to Hadrian. The work is divided into 12 books and it covers public law (religion and state), private law, criminal law and administrative law. -
Digesta was another part of Corpus Iuris Civilis. It contained most important juristic writings (collection of jursiprudence). Digesta was divided into 50 books. The jurisprudence was mostly taken from the classical period (especially from the works of Ulpianus and Paulus). In Digesta we can also find the fragment talking about lex regia. -
Institutiones served as an official (and the only allowed) textbook. The book is largely based on the previous textbook on Roman law written by Gaius. It should have served as an introduction to the study of Digesta. -
Novellae is a collection of new constitutions of Justinian. It is considered to be the fourth part of Corpus Iuris Civilis. They mostly deal with public law (administrative and canonic). In case of collision it had derogative effect on Digest and Codex (Lex posterior derogat legi priori).
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Also known as Code of Leovigild. Codex revisus is a review of the Code of Euric. There are no known fragments of this code preserved. However, later codification Liber Iudiciorum takes parts of this code and labels them "antiquae."
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This code replaced both Euric's Code and Breviary of Alaric. It introduced the principle of territoriality - i.e. everyone was to follow this code rather than having specific codification for Visigoths and Romans. It was officially promulgated by king Recceswinth. Translation of this work can be found here: https://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/basis/scott-visigothiccodeforum.pdf -
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Other than Corpus Iuris Civilis this is the most important legal work from the Byzantine Empire. It was written in Greek (not in Latin anymore) although it was still based on Roman law (despite already being strongly influenced by Christianity). It was promulgated during the reign of the Byzantine emperor Leo III.
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Basilika was another simplification of Corpus Iuris Civilis. It was also written in Greek and they were promulgated by Leo VI the Wise. It contained 60 books and also new customs and new legislation.
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This was an important document from the 11th century that was an attempt of the pope to legally establish his supremacy and right to depose emperors. It was a source of canon law as it states some rights of the pope. More can be read here: http://legalhistorysources.com/ChurchHistory220/TopicFive/DictatusPapaeReuter.htm -
(1050-1125) One of the most important jurists of the Middle Ages from Bologna who worked on recomposition of Corpus Iuris Civilis and he also commented it in a form of gloss. He founded the law school of glossators. New branches of law can also be derived from this era such as international private law.