HIST-1106EL Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Jus Commune, Numitor, Praetor

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Law in europe: the life of a colossus. Aeneas (trojan: went from troy to rome and settled there. Procas: numitor and amulius, rhea silvia (vertals) (daughter of numitor) was so beautiful that god. Mars fell in love with her, had two twins (romulus and remus), to be protected they put them in baskets and set them down the river. Ius civile: edictum (edicta): king, lex (leges): assembly of citizens (comitia, usus (customary law) Role of senate: always present, assembly of descendants of patres" and senes": patricians, senatus consultum: not law but advice to king, confirms appointment of king, confirms decisions by king. Last king: lucretia and sextus, tarquinius superbus. Law of the xii tables (450 bc: strife between patricians and plebeians, tribuni plebis: veto, no imperium, model = laws drafted by solon for athens, gnaeus flavius. Interpretation of the law used to be done by the priests: secularization separation of religion from the state.