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Real History Of Roman: Roman Law. To understand why continental European countries share a common legal heritage in the civil law, and to grasp the meaning of that heritage, one must consider the history of the civil law, with its roots in Roman law.
Over its long history, Roman law was brought to a high level of juristic development. The Romans, with their genius for institution and their practical sense, achieved excellent solutions for practical problems and combined these solutions into a remarkable body of law. This law, reflecting the relatively high development of Roman political, economic, and social life, met the requirements of a culturally and economically advanced society. However, the Roman juristic tradition and the corpus of Roman law did not pass immediately and full blown to the societies of western Europe.
The most important event of the reign of his son and successor Caracalla (real history of Roman name Marcus Aurelius Antoninus) was the Constitutio An-toniniana, or Edict of Caracalla, by which in 212 he extended the rights of Roman citizenship to all free subjects of the empire. This law was the culmination of the process of unification of the Roman dominions begun by Caesar and Augustus. Because of the military character given to the monarchy by Septimius Severus, however, the law actually raised the more warlike and less Roman provinces over those most responsive to Roman traditions. It therefore accelerated the decadence of the empire.
History.—Originally an Umbrian town, Ravenna became a Roman municipium after the defeat of the Boii in 191 B.C., and later a flourishing colony. Emperor Augustus (63 B.C.-14 A.D.) built the port of Classis, connected to the city by the Via Caesarea, which became the station of the Roman fleet of the northern Adriatic. Ravenna's history was influenced by its strategic position on the road to Rome from the northeast. Its most brilliant period started in 402 A.D. when Emperor Honorius (384-423) selected it as the capital of the Western Roman Empire. After the fall of the empire in 476, Odoacer, the Gothic king, ruled from here over Italy until 493, as did his successor Theodoric until 526. |
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