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Why Law is Rome's most Lasting contribution
in language, literature, art, infrastructure, and city-planning are all areas where the influences of Roman ideas can be seen. It was Hammurabi's Code of Law that was the first law codes.One important area of influence was Roman law. The first law code in Roman history was the Law of the Twelve Tables, the precursor to the development of Roman law. Roman law developed the division between public law, in which the state is directly involved, such as with issues of treason and taxation. -
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Public Law
The Roman Republic's constitution or mos maiorum ("custom of the ancestors") was an unwritten set of guidelines and principles passed down mainly through precedent. Concepts that originated in the Roman constitution live on in constitutions to this day. -
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Important Views of Democracy from Greek/Roman philosophers
-Greek
*Their work has been the main focus of interest for students of philosophy and specialists.
*Plato, the triumph of his work has been so complete and influential in western philosophy.
-Roman
*Romans found out that Greek philosophers like Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle had been doing a lot of thinking about philosophy around 50 B.C.
* These Romans were even beginning to write philosophy themselves, though most of it was pretty much just translating Greek philosophy into Latin. -
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Lex Aquilia
provided compensation to the owners of property injured by someone's fault -
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Rome's System of Law is Developed
The development of Roman law comprises more than a thousand years of jurisprudence - from the Twelve Tables. o the Corpus Juris Civilis (AD 529) ordered by Emperor Justinian I. This Roman law, the Justinian Code, was effective in the Eastern Roman Empire and also served as a basis for legal practice in continental Europe, as well as in Ethiopia, and most former colonies of European nations, including Latin America. -
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Rome's System of Law Impacts the Modern World
US
-The idea of “innocent until proven guilty,” which underlies the United States ' criminal justice system, also came from ancient Roman ideas. Also, the purpose of written law as a way to protect individuals from one another and from the power of the state is an inherently Roman idea.
EUROPE
-The Romans were the first to develop a real science of law. Roman law also offers a specificity and a power: its ability to reduce a problem to one or two sentences and from that come up with a rule. -
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Twelve Tables
private law comprised the Roman civil law that applied only to Roman citizens, and was bonded to religion; undeveloped, with attributes of strict formalism, symbolism, and conservatism, -
Period: Feb 24, 963 to
Holy Roman Empire
the great influence upon the civil law systems in Europe.
