Development of the Roman Legal System

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" The following is a historical outline of the development of Roman law, from its origins in the legendary era of Rome's seven kings (753-510 BC) until its final culmination in the legislation of Justinian in the sixth century A.D. In this period of over a 1,000 years, the Romans not only devised a system of law that spread over almost the whole of the known, civilized world,1 but created legal principles and procedures which are still followed today in nations and regions of which the Caesars never dreamed.

The two greatest achievements of Roman civilization were the unification of the Mediterranean world and its neighboring regions for several centuries in the Roman Empire, and the development of the Roman tradition of law. In most features of civilization--literature, art and architecture, even their religious mythology--the Romans appear to us as mere imitators of.."

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