Each case was to be determined afresh from the laws of the State, which mirrors the unimportance of judges’ decisions for future circumstances in civil law systems at present. From 529 to 534 AD the Byzantine Emperor Justinian I codified and consolidated Roman law up till that point, so that what remained was one-twentieth of the mass of legal texts from earlier than. As one legal historian wrote, “Justinian consciously seemed again to the golden age of Roman law and aimed to restore it to the peak it had reached three centuries earlier than.” The Justinian Code remained in pressure…
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