ADJUS-120 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Princeps, Praetorian Prefect, Legal Certainty

• School: Diablo Valley College
• Department: Administration Of Justice
• Course: ADJUS-120
• Professor: Kukunis

Document Summary

Fas> governed the relations between gods and men. Ius> governed the relations between the roman citizens. Initially, governed only disputes between different gentes because disputes between the same gens were an internal affair. Only those disputes that were indeed regulated by the ius could be brought before a court, other disputes should be solved by the parties themselves. Ius civile> the law of and for the roman citizens. The ethnic background of the people in a dispute matter: not where it occurs. Mos maiorum> most important rules of the ius civile, passed down from generation to generation. The law of the twelve tables> there was a dispute between the patricians and plebeians, and the plebeians demanded legal certainty. The only ones who could interpret the law until then where the priests, which were all patricians and they could therefore interpret the law in their own favor.