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Levin College Of Law
Each case was to be determined afresh from the laws of the State, which mirrors the unimportance of judges’ choices for future instances in civil law techniques today. From 529 to 534 AD the Byzantine Emperor Justinian I codified and consolidated Roman law up until that time, in order that what remained was one-twentieth of the mass of authorized texts from before. As one legal historian wrote, “Justinian consciously appeared back to the golden age of Roman law and aimed to revive it to the height it had reached three centuries before.” The Justinian Code remained in pressure in the…