CLASSICS 2LW3 Lecture 19: 27th November
4 Apr 2018
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Roman law in late antiquity (post classical period) Advocates and jurists: cavere, agere, controversiae, declamationes (e. g. seneca for the cuckholded husband, school exercises for law students (moot court). One in reading for adultery: responder (answer questions, ius publice respondendi ex auctoritate principis (the right to give a public response under the authority of the princeps) crown jurists. These responses began to be collected and written down: jurist mostly sorting wills. Legal schools": during principate (up to 130s), roman jurisprudence dominated by two. Private: officially adopted, but not officially commissioned. The corpus iuris civilis: 529 codex justinianus, 533 digesta ( arranged things", 3 million lines of texts consolidated, reduced to 150,000 lines, eliminating contradictions, supposed to take 10 years, only takes 3, 533 institutes - introductory legal text. Training manual": 534 revised codex justinianus- included all imperial constitutions and new laws, 535-555 novel laws (novellae leges)
