Roman Law s covered all facets of daily life. They were concerned with crime and punishment, land and property ownership, commerce, the maritime and agricultural industries, citizenship, sexuality and prostitution, slavery and manumission, politics, liability and damage to property, and preservation of the peace.

An edition with Latin, English translations, and extensive editorial commentary. The Institutes of Roman Law is Gaius' best known work which became the authoritative legal text during the late Roman Empire.

1) All citizens had the right to equal treatment under law. 2) A person was considered innocent until proven guilty. 3) The burden of proof rested with the accuser rather than the accused. 4) Any law that seemed unreasonable or grossly unfair could be set aside.

The old law comprised (1) all of the statutes passed under the republic and early empire that had not become obsolete; (2) the decrees of the Senate passed at the end of the republic and during the first two centuries of the empire; and (3) the writings of jurists and, more particularly, of those jurists to whom the ...