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65 Hung. J. Legal Stud. 1 (2024)

handle is hein.journals/ajur65 and id is 1 raw text is: Hungarian Journal of Legal Studies 65 (2024) 1, 1-2 DOI: 10.1556/2052.2024.00009 AUDaILmu WmAD6 Introduction: Ancient heritage: The law of the Roman Empire EVA JAKAB < Karoli Gaspar University of the Reformed Church in Hungary, Budapest, Hungary EDITORIAL © 2024 Akad6miai Kiad6, Budapest Legal history has his own mission - not only for engaged scholars of the topic but also for students, scholars, and lawyers of our modern time. As already Corbin stated: a sufficient reason for comparative historical study of cases in great number is the fact that such study frees the teacher and the lawyer and the judge from the illusion of certainty; and from the delusion that law is absolute and eternal, that doctrines can be used mechanically, and that there are correct and unchangeable definitions.' Legal history does matter. The base of legal reasoning and systematized legal thinking was laid down in ancient Rome. In the course of its thousand-year-history, civilian tradition shaped the legal development of Europe (and beyond). The private law of the Roman Empire was long regarded as a highly developed, uniform legal system. This view was also encouraged by the fact that classical Roman law, which appeared in various, often controversial decisions by jurists, could only be studied indirectly in the law codes of Emperor Justinian. His law codes served as a source of legal wisdom and positive law for centuries in East and West. Therefore, legal education, jurisprudence, jurisdiction, and legisla- tion limited their investigation to the juridical sources collected in the Corpus Iuris Civilis. The scholarly treatment of Roman law changed with the expansion of research into other types of testimonies. Plenty of papyri from the Eastern provinces (Egypt, Arabia, Asia, etc.) and legal documents on wooden tablets from Italy, Dacia, Britannia, and North Africa shed new light on everyday practice, on the living law of the Romans. The view prevailed that not only the center, the law of the city of Rome deserves attention, but also the periphery, the law of the provinces of the Roman Empire. * Corresponding author. E-mail: jakab.eva@kre.hu 'Corbin (1952) 163.

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