Roman Law's First Code Of Law

The Roman Empire influenced literature, art, language, the creation of law, democratic government systems etc. The Roman law was known as the twelve tables which was their first code of law. The idea, innocent until proven guilty’, originated from the Roman’s as well.
Roman law’s first code was the twelve tables which had a tremendous influence on Western law today. The distinction between public law (“the law of relations between individuals and the state”) and private law (“a branch of the law that deals with the relations between individuals or institutions, rather than relations between these and the state”) were developed. Various continental systems grew out of Roman law following the Justinian laws.
Modern law uses the ways of the Roman’s to structure the government. The most influential idea of the Roman’s was a senate. The senate ruled Rome for hundreds of years and continued to be an extensive influence, even when Rome became an empire. The senate was the place for mature and wise members to prevail and mainly consisted of old men deemed to be wise as they have lived already. The notion of a Veto was further adopted by the Roman’s. They were allowed to counter …show more content…
The recognition of the Roman supreme authority is impressive. The reason for written law is a means of protecting the people from one another and the supremacy of the State. It is of paramount importance to many countries because the Roman’s invented the concept of civil law (“…Roman law is a legal system originating in Europe, intellectualized within the framework of late Roman law, and whose most prevalent feature is that its core principles are codified into a referable system which serves as the primary source of law”), requiring various codes of law and codes of well-proportioned