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Made every free person living in the Empire a citizen, this ruled by Roman law (ius civile). Caracalla wanted a legal equality. -
Only certain jurists may be cited in the trial: Papinianus, Paulus, Ulpianus, Modestinus and Gaius.
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After its fall begins the period known as the Middle Ages, ranging from 476 (fall of Rome, to the hands of barbarian peoples) to 1453 A.D. which is the year in which the Turks - Ottomans conquered Constantinople (or Byzantium).
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By Alaric the second. Also known as the Lex Romana Visigothorum.
An anthology as law. The code (having Roman law as the source for making laws) abolished the old tradition of having different laws for Romans (leges romanae) and Visigoths (leges barbarorum). Now, all subjects of the kingdom were gathered under the same jurisdiction. -
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It was a compilation of laws and opinions of jurisconsults made by the Roman emperor Justinian, of the East or Byzantine emperor, which had fifty books, and was made in 533. There he ordered the "iura", that is, the opinions expressed by the famous classical Roman jurists. Other parts of the work, known as "Corpus Iuris Civilis" were the Code, the Institutas and the Novelas. -
Justinian Institutions are divided into four books: each book is subdivided into titles, and each title into paragraphs. The first book, with some general notions about law, deals with people; the second, about things, about rights in rem, about probate, etc.; the third, intestate successions and obligations arising from contracts and quasi-treaties; the fourth, obligations arising from offences and quasi-offences, actions and other legal means of asserting one’s rights. -
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They contain the constitutions promulgated by Justinian after publishing the compilation composed of the three sections. Unlike the previous parts, the Novels are not compiled as a formal unit that responds to the design of a sovereign, but are known through private collections. The great merit of Justinian’s work was to condense the legal knowledge of Rome and act as the link of continuity for that thought to pass to the European legal consciousness assuming. -
During this age, there are a lot of background problems (hunger, epidemics, plagues...) that made survival the most important thing, leaving law in a secondary position.
Jurists disappear as a professional category until the 12th century.
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