Sources Of Law Flashcards

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Archaic law

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  • custom (ius non scriptum)

- royal decrees (legis regiae): prescriptive and condemnatory

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Republic

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  • legislation: the twelve tables
  • magistrates’ edicts - they had the ius edicendi. The edicts were known as ius honorarium and supplemented the ius civile.
  • assemblies
  • senate: senatus consulta had great weight (but no formal legal power)
  • interpretatio: responsa from the pontiffs and subsequently the praetors.
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Empire

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  • legislation: assemblies in decline, senatus consulta given the weight of lex.
  • emperor: decreta, mandata, edicta, rescripta (epistulae and subscriptiones via libellue)
  • edicts: the importance of the praetor waned following the perpetual edict.
  • interpretatio: jurists were given the ius respondendi and became glorified civil servants. Two schools of thought evolved - the Proculians (progressives following Labeo) and the Sabinians (conservatives following Capito)

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Post classical

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  • jurists disappear
  • more legislation
  • the law of citations
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Justinian

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Sought to revive Roman classical law through:

  • the codex vetus
  • the fifty decisions
  • the digest
  • the institutes
  • the new code and the novellae
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