Describes the administration and precedence of laws for an organization devoted to C17th research.
Codifies paternal authority, except in certain cases of coloni transfer when the law enables the family to be broken up.
Marks the progressive movement of the ordaining of marriage from civil to church ceremonies.
Provides an article detailing the history of Canon Law in Europe and its development through medieval times.
Limits the freedom of children born of freewomen and unfree men, or unfree men and free women.
Ensures the maternal influence over a child's status, making slaves and adscripticii equal before the law.
Details a case in which adulterers, fleeing judgement, were pursued by the church.
Details several laws structured around the observance of the Sabbath and other Christian holidays. Also prohibits gathering of the Manicheans.
Extends the laws governing the bond of coloni with the land to Palestine.
Provides a letter from the emperor condemning the Jewish observance of Passover, and strictly codifying the celebration of Easter.
Offers the transcript of an imperial decree offering only Catholic Christians a grant of free worship.
Dating back to the time of Augustus, these laws detail proper marriage, and attitudes about prostitution, concubinage, and adultery.
Issued in Latin in three parts, the Corpus Luris Civilis describes the laws of nations, of nature, and the civil law of Rome.
Describes the first code of law to be influenced by Christian principles. Lists criminal behaviors requiring flogging, exile, and mutilation.
College course in English law offers these overviews of how English law evolved from the communal courts through the reign of Edward I.
Provides the laws of the seventh and eighth centuries regulating the behavior of free peasants.
Features an excerpt from "The Disciplinary Decrees of The Ecumenical Courts" detailing the Lateran Council's 1215 Canon on heresy.
Furnishes Constantine Augustus' Edict of Milan calling for toleration of religious observances.
Full-text of a document written by Matthew Hale in 1713, which considers the medieval origins of English Law.
Provides the Codex Justinianus, the Digest, and the Institutes which offered imperial constitutions from the time of Hadrian, and current edicts.
Prohibits the reading of the Mishnah, and permits the reading of Greek or Latin translations of the Torah in all synagogues.
Provides the written law furnishing fines for murder. Provides evidence of resistance to the French conquerors of England.
Offers codes from Theodosianus and Justinian expressing the pervasive restrictions against Jews during the empire.
Find out what legitimate and natural sons got from their late fathers in the Lombard tribe.
Details the document issued by the barons under King John that established the foundation of British constitutional legislation.
US-based page dealing with European medieval history and the development of the common law systems.
Provides commentary on a marriage contract made under duress. Brings into play Alexander III's consent theory of marriage.
Protects freemen from unjust claims of landlords by placing weight upon testimony and written records.
Justinian's law removed the loss of freedom attached to freewomen who married adscripticii.
Ensures the return of fugitive slaves by fining landowners for employing them.
Christianity was made the official religion of the empire; all others were declared illegal.
Offers the 63 cannons and Holy Land Decree of the Twelfth Ecumenical Council.
Denies the bishops of Gaul the opportunity to counter any ancient custom without the authority of the venerable father.
Details the taxes and penalties imposed on landowners who did not cultivate their land, or who performed some other form of agrarian evil.