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The 86 pages that link to Roman law, each with the reason it gives.

• Justinian INarrower topic: Justinian’s compilation preserved and organized Roman legal materials for later societies.

• Roman citizenshipNarrower topic: Citizenship was a status defined and regulated by Roman law.

• Civil law (legal system)Narrower topic: Its concepts and compilations supplied foundational material for many civil-law systems.

• Fall of the Western Roman EmpireNarrower topic: Roman legal practices endured in successor kingdoms and shaped later European legal systems.

• Terra nulliusNarrower topic: Roman ideas about property and occupation helped supply concepts later used in European territorial law.

• Pliny the YoungerNarrower topic: Pliny’s legal career and governorship involved applying Roman law to citizens and provincial communities.

• Corpus Juris CivilisNarrower topic: The compilation organized and transmitted this broader legal tradition.

• Presumption of innocenceNarrower topic: Roman legal traditions supplied early ideas about accusation, proof, and judgment.

• Roman HispaniaNarrower topic: Roman legal traditions influenced later law in Iberia and beyond.

• Roman ForumNarrower topic: Trials and legal advocacy in the Forum helped make law a public practice.

• Persecution of Christians in the Roman EmpireNarrower topic: Charges and punishments operated through local administration and imperial authority, not one uniform persecution statute.

• Roman patronageNarrower topic: Patrons used influence and advocacy to help clients pursue legal claims.

• GlossatorsNarrower topic: The glossators’ project began with the systematic study of this inherited body of law.

• Twelve TablesNarrower topic: The tables became an early foundation for Rome’s broader legal tradition.

• Civil deathNarrower topic: Roman legal ideas supplied precedents for status-based restrictions on capacity.

• Jus soliNarrower topic: Roman legal traditions often emphasized descent and status rather than automatic citizenship by birthplace.

• Civil codeNarrower topic: Roman concepts supplied enduring foundations for many civil codes.

• Age of criminal responsibilityNarrower topic: Roman distinctions among childhood, puberty, and responsibility helped shape later legal approaches.

• Private lawNarrower topic: Its categories and doctrines supplied enduring foundations for private-law systems.

• TribonianNarrower topic: Tribonian's compilations gathered and reorganized centuries of Roman law.

• Code of lawNarrower topic: Roman legal texts supplied concepts and methods used in later codifications.

• Law of obligationsNarrower topic: Roman jurists supplied foundational categories for obligations and their sources.

• Alberico GentiliNarrower topic: Its juristic methods and categories supplied tools Gentili used to reason about relations among states.

• Legal fictionNarrower topic: Roman jurists used procedural and interpretive fictions that influenced later legal systems.

• Byzantine Empire under the Justinian dynastyNarrower topic: Justinian’s legal codification gathered and revised this inherited body of law.

• Doctor of both lawsNarrower topic: Its doctrines underpin much of the civil-law study associated with the degree.

• Giorgio AgambenNarrower topic: Roman legal distinctions supply the homo sacer figure that anchors his inquiry into sovereignty.

• History of criminal justiceNarrower topic: Roman institutions and legal ideas shaped later European criminal procedure.

• Law of ItalyNarrower topic: Its concepts and texts helped shape the civil-law tradition inherited in Italy.

• Law of SpainNarrower topic: Roman legal concepts and methods helped shape Spain’s civil-law inheritance.

• Legal scienceNarrower topic: Its juristic writings supplied durable materials for systematic legal analysis.

• PapinianNarrower topic: Papinian’s opinions belong to the juristic tradition within this legal system.

• Will and testamentNarrower topic: Roman rules and practices helped shape later European law on inheritance and testamentary acts.