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Initially the rediscovered Roman law was not the law of any particular country or institution, but as lawyers trained in the concepts of Roman law came to dominate the legal profession, Roman law came to have an immense effect on law as actually practiced. For example,
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of comparing potentially conflicting texts and inferring principles that would explain the apparent contradictions. The commentators of the 12th and early 13th centuries, called
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was reintroduced into Europe as a means of acquiring evidence, usually when there was half-proof or more against a defendant but not yet sufficient proof for conviction.
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system as the main form of evidence evaluation, thus remaining less influenced by Roman law than continental systems. However, some English courts, such as the
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was a massive intellectual achievement and that the assimilation of its contents would require much time and study. The first western European university, the
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The ancient Roman law texts were not very explicit about matters of principle, and the commentators found it necessary to develop the
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which governed such matters as marriage, developed in parallel with medieval Roman law and incorporated many of its concepts.
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were seen in legal terms and discussed by writers whose primary training was in law. These ideas formed the basic of modern
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in the law of evidence. Many of these glosses or interpretations, were compiled into one text around 1220 by
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Roman law was in part incorporated in later codifications of continental law such as the
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The Prince and the Law, 1200-1600: Sovereignty and rights in the Western legal tradition
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and was a compilation of the most important commentaries made by the glossators.
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was rediscovered in late 11th century Italy. It was soon apparent that the
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incorporated a substantial amount of Roman concepts through the works of
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A History of the Philosophy of Law in the Civil Law World, 1600-1900
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The Jurists’ Philosophy of Law from Rome to the Seventeenth Century
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A Short History of European Law: The Last Two and a Half Millennia
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The Science of Conjecture: Evidence and Probability Before Pascal
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Law and Revolution: The Formation of the Western Legal Tradition
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Roman law often acted (except in England) as a "common law" (
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European Legal History: A Cultural and Political Perspective
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was heavily influenced by Roman law from the 15th century.
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Continuation of ancient Roman law in the late Middle Ages
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A Treatise of Legal Philosophy and General Jurisprudence
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Damiano Canala, Paolo Grossi, & Hasso Hofmann, eds.
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A Treatise of Legal Philosophy and General Jurisprudence
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A Treatise of Legal Philosophy and General Jurisprudence
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The Creation of the Ius Commune: From Casus to Regula
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Although some legal systems in western Europe in the
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Index

Roman law
Late Middle Ages
Corpus iuris civilis
civil law systems
Early Middle Ages
Visigothic Code
Byzantine Empire
Justinian's Code
updated
Digest
University of Bologna
scholastic method
glossators
Azo of Bologna
Accursius
half-proof
Accursius
torture
English law
Glanvill
Bracton
jury
Court of Admiralty
Canon law
Roman Catholic Church
postglossators
Bartolus de Saxoferato
Baldus de Ubaldis
insurance
Pedro de Santarém

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