jus civileRoman law

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• major reference ( in Roman law: Development of the jus civile and jus gentium )

  In the great span of time during which the Roman Republic and Empire existed, there were many phases of legalistic development. During the period of the republic (753–31 bc), the jus civile (civil law) developed. Based on custom or legislation, it applied exclusively to Roman citizens. By the middle of the 3rd century bc, however, another type of law, jus gentium (law of...

• relation to jus gentium ( in civil law )

  The term civil law has other meanings not employed in this article. The term jus civile, meaning “civil law,” for example, was used in ancient Rome to distinguish the law found exclusively in the city of Rome from the jus gentium, the law of all nations, found throughout the empire. The phrase has...

  in jus gentium )

  (Latin: “law of nations”), in legal theory, that law which natural reason establishes for all men, as distinguished from jus civile, or the civil law peculiar to one state or people. Roman lawyers and magistrates originally devised jus gentium as a system of equity applying to cases between foreigners and Roman citizens. The concept originated in the Romans’...

  in law, philosophy of: Roman thought )

  ...as well as in the work of the great jurisconsults, Stoic speculation concerning reason and nature was brought onto the level of precepts for concrete problem solving. The crude, tribal jus civile (“civil law”) of the Romans was thus transformed into a natural-law-based jus gentium (law applying to all people), a set of principles common to all nations and...