[MOST TESTED QUESTIONS]COMPREHENSIVE
QUESTIONS AND VERIFIED CORRECT
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Male primogeniture
a rule of inheritance at Common Law through which the
oldest male child has the right to succeed to the estate of
an ancestor
Repugnancy clause
regarded indigenous law as long as it was it was not in
contrast to the Western law
Polygynous marriages
the marriage of a man with several women.
Appellate Division
Former name of the Supreme Court of Appeal.
Indigenous Law
the law of the Bantu speakers, that occupy the greatest
part of africa south of the Saharha.
Bantu speakers
,a broad linguistic group that originated in West Central
Africa, and from there migrated southwards and
eastwards.
Oral traditions
verbal accounts of the past, preserved through songs,
legends and epic poems.
Corpus Iuris Civilis parts (4)
(1)The Codex, (2)The Digest, (3)The Institutes, (4)The
Novellae
The Codex (1)
Imperial legislation was systematised and updated and the
inconsistencies were eliminated.
The Digest (2)
Juristic law was updated and systematised and the
inconsistencies were eliminated.
The Institutes (3)
A textbook on the law intended for students. It was based
on Gaius’s Institutes.
The Novellae (4)
Imperial legislation that was promulgated after the
publication of the Codex.
AD 438 the Codex Theodosianus
The first official collection of imperial legislation issued
in the Eastern Roman Empire
vulgar law
Roman law, influenced by Germanic law
The Principate legal developers(3)
The emperor, The praetor, The jurists
, The emperor (during the principate period)
had supreme power and made laws.
The praetor (during the republican period)
determined the civil procedure that parties should follow
in a lawsuit and published this procedure in edicts, which
were placed in the market for all to see.
The jurist (during the republican period)
laymen who took an interest in the study of the law.
5 Great Roman Jurists
Gaius, Papinian, Ulpian, Paul and Modestinus
Ius gentium
a body of international law with a less formalistic and
fairer
character than the Roman ius civile.
Reason the Twelve Tables were important
(1) Ended the patricians's exclusive control. (2) Marked
the division between the rules of law and the rules of
religion. (3) Gave everybody access to the legal rules. (4)
Created legal certainty. (5) Introduced the beginnings of a
legal science.
aediles curules (3)
responsible for maintaining order in there market and on
the public roads and had jurisdiction over crimes
committed within their area of work and over legal
disputes that arose out of transactions at the markets.
4 types of government throughout the development of
Roman law
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