Everywhere there was civil order, for the arm of the Roman law was long.
On the European continent a different idea of law holds sway, the Roman Law system (with caveats, but this is largely true).
For reasons having nothing to do with the autonomy of cathedral schools or medieval cities and towns, the Catholic popes of the high middle ages enlisted their clerics to organize a body of law, drawing from the old Roman law as well as Scripture, that could be applied throughout Europe, and allow them to centralize authority in Rome.
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Julius Caesar, in one of the edicts changing Roman law after his takeover, gives the first example of allowing bankers to confiscate land in lieu of loan payments.
Europeans inherited the idea of the corporation from Roman law.
And in Roman Law the politicians have to have had their say before you can write such a contract.
One reason night-time deliveries were allowed to disturb the sleep of ordinary Roman citizens is simply that the city's law-makers, safely cocooned in their Palatine palaces, had no experience of living in such bleak circumstances themselves.
Correa has eroded the influence of opposition parties, the Roman Catholic Church and the news media and used criminal libel law to try to silence opposition journalists.
Under the Roman Catholic Church's canon law, it is technically possible for a pope to resign, but no pope has ever left office voluntarily in modern times.
The Byzantine emperor Justinian is still known as "the Great" for reconquering Italy, north Africa and south-eastern Spain as well as codifying Roman law in a way which forms the basis of legal systems in many countries today.
But why does the current law discriminate against women and Roman Catholics?
Pope Benedict XVI has amended Roman Catholic church law so that the conclave selecting his successor can be brought forward, the Vatican says.
The usual alternative being something based upon Roman or Napoleonic law.
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AD, Ulpian was expounding Roman law as a system based on the Stoic idea that we are all born free and equal, that slavery is against nature, and that all people, including slaves, possess a dignity that can be vindicated in legal proceedings.
Mr. Cuomo had delayed its debut to find bill language that would both appease women's-rights groups and mollify the Roman Catholic Church, which has argued that changes to state law may encourage a greater number of abortions.
South Africa is one of just a few countries in the world that that has a court system that takes root in Roman-Dutch law.
Brazil's legal system derives from Roman law, in which judges generally base their decisions less on the precedents set by their predecessors and more on their understanding of a written code.
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