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212
Classical Roman Law
Constitutio Antoniniana granted roman citizenship to people of the Empirer. The distinction between citizens and non-citizens largely disappared. --> Roman Law dominant legal system -
284
Post-Classical Roman law
Dominus et Deus: Power concentration of the emperor - laws devided into general (orations ad senatum and edicta) and special laws (Decreta, Mandata, Rescripta, Adnotatio)
Compilations: Codex Gregorianus and Hermogenianus --> private collection of relevant laws of emperial law by lawyers -
Period: 437 to 659
Visgothic Times
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438
Codex Theodosianus
crucial legal text for both eastern and western roman Empires -
476
Code of Euric
early written visgothic law -
Period: 500 to 1000
Early middleages
per pugnam sine iustitia: a time without professional jurists -
506
Breviary of Alaric II
lex romana visothorum: Compilation of „vulgar“ law of Visigoths
Content: leges (emperial constitutions), iura (replies by classical jurists) and interpretatio (to clarify law) -
Period: 527 to 565
Justinian
Wanted to restore the Empire to former glory: Simplification of law and simple, repetitive activities of jurists (Ius publicae respondi ) -
568
Codex Revisus
Review of Code of Euric - did not survive: laws appearad in liber iudiciorum with the inscription antiquae -
654
Liber iudiciorum
Set of laws promulgated by several visigoth kings appicable to both Visigoths and Romans -
1050
Renaissance
Rediscovery of Justinians Works and reappearance of legal concepts --> Irnerius founded school of Bologna which became center for legal studies in Europe --> Ratio scripta (written knowledge)