HIST-1106EL Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Mos Maiorum, Bartolus De Saxoferrato, Aemilius Papinianus

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Empire: a monarchy, development of the law in the early empire = special importance, the principate. Emperor: no absolute power, sometimes thwarted in his objectives by old republican sentiments in the senat: the dominate. Starts when the emperors have consolidated their supreme power. The old republican public offices: honorary positions without any actual power (- true for praetor as well) Praetor doesn"t have the power to conceive new formulae anymore; went on to preside over the 1st phase of legal proceedings in litigation per formulam: period of the early empire: Coincides for a large part with the classical period of roman law. Covers the whole principate & the 1st part of the dominate. : controversy about the end of the classical period of roman law (coincide with the death of the jurist papinian in 212 ad / death of ulpian in 223 ad) Dutch scholars: end of emperor diocletian"s reign in 295 - the last jurist to be incorporated into.