Jurisprudence in Ancient Rome

Abstract

Jurisprudence would form an important formal source of law, as, in the classical age, it would become a valuable instrument and a true measure of the “jus civilian” system, which later became what the Romans had intended in the first place, namely an immutable, permanent and unchanged system of law both in regard to content and form. This is the time when the most famed legal advisers lived, veritable “wise men” of the legal system created during the 12 centuries of existence of the Roman state which was left in the conscience of universal civilization by the science of law, a universal value which influenced all subsequent systems of law.