They created the Eastern Orthodox religion, they preserved almost all of the Greek artifacts we have currently, and Justinian's Corpus iuris civilis became the foundation of nearly all European law and legal practice. ... The Corpus iuris was an attempt to systematize Roman law, to reduce it to order after over 1,000 years of development. ... The four parts of the Corpus iuris are the Institutes, the Digest or Pandects, the most important part, intended for practitioners and judges, the Codex or Code, and the Novels or Novellae, an assortment of later imperial legislation issued betwe...

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Roman Law was the law that was in effect throughout the age of antiquity in the City of Rome and later in the Roman Empire. When Roman rule over Europe came to an end, Roman law was largely--though not completely--forgotten. (Ancient Rome, Compton's 96) The earliest code of Roman Law was the Law of ...

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