Roman law
Roman law: First, narrowly refers to the Roman Republic and the Roman Empire developed by the general terms of the legal norms. Roman law system to promote the history began in the Eastern Roman Empire, in the Eastern Roman Empire Emperor Justinian I reached its peak. After the East Roman Empire self-closed, the Western Roman Empire, the European continent into the cultural civilization of the relatively dark medieval, the main body of the Roman law was lost more than 600 years. But with the Roman literature unearthed and the Renaissance thought, the Roman law became the object of research and promotion of all the forces of the continent. After the Renaissance, the European legal system, established on the basis of Roman law, was also called "ius commune" or "civil law", and was regarded as the wealth of the whole of European civilization To show the difference between the classical Roman law of the 6th century. Second, the broad sense of the Roman law, refers to the meaning of this layer, including civil law. ...