Roman law

"In the meanwhile," continued the magistrate, "our codes are in full force, with all their contradictory enactments derived from Gallic customs, Roman laws, and Frank usages; the knowledge of all which, you will agree, is not to be acquired without extended labor; it needs tedious study to acquire this knowledge, and, when acquired, a strong power of brain to retain it."

With regard to both of these topics, we will see Roman law declaring permissible commercial behavior that was violently denounced by the Christian tradition.

Le droit civil was based on ancient Roman law and French custom, and recorded in a comprehensive Civil Code enacted in Quebec in 1857.

It has prevailed for millennia in Europe, developing early in Roman law and spreading from there to the civil law systems that evolved all over the continent and became codified in France, Germany, and elsewhere around the time of Napoleon.

Under Roman law he was crucified at Golgotha as a political rebel and was buried in the tomb of Joseph of Arimathea.

Large elements of natural law entered into the common law of England--and therefore into the common law of the United States--over the centuries; and the Roman law, so eminent in the science of jurisprudence, expresses the natural law enunciated by the Roman jurisconsults.

This phrase, like the entire Constitution, conveys to citizens a right as old as Roman law. Property, or ownership, is actually a "bundle of rights," like a bundle of sticks.

" Horatius was condemned to death for this murder but was acquitted with a token punishment: a beam symbolizing a yoke was erected across the street, and Horatius passed under it with covered head, thus showing submission to Roman law. The beam came to be known as " sister's gibbet.

As a well-enshrined Roman law that is also in the Philippine Civil Code says, 'Pater Familias' states that a person should take care of his properties as a good father to his family.

During the time of Jesus, the Jews--largely ignorant of the Roman law and language--usually employed Roman "advocates" in their trials before the Roman courts.

While tracing the history of this principle of Roman law in the subcontinent and establishing that lying in court had been present in Indian courts right from their inauguration in the early 19th century.