PSY 005 Lecture Notes - Lecture 58: Erga Omnes, Signify, Principate
2 Sep 2020
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Fas vs ius: fas: governed the relations between gods and men. Statute law: comitia and concilium plebis would occasionally adopt statute laws which added to the. Law of the 12 tables: lex aquilia: plebiscite on tort law (287 bc, best known example of a statute law. Early republic; no legal remedy=no title or right (ubi ius, ibi remedium) Only disputes for which the ius civile provided a remedy could be taken to court. Theory of natural and human law; some rules of conduct were inherent in human nature: natural law: measure of objective justice that applied to all people, stoa: philosophical tradition; existence of a single, natural society of all men. Cicero rejected utilitarianism, legal rules that were not in accordance with nature and the supreme law led to injustice: but not all human laws needed to be in accordance with natural law in order to be enforceable. Jurists of the imperial age used concepts of natural law.
