History of law



Let´s introduce law
nword law refers to limits upon various forms of behaviour
nwe have some rules in the society as well
nrelationships between individuals are regulated by social rules
nwe have rules in institutions which are obligatory for members of these institutions (religion…)
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nHistory of law is closely connected with development of the civilisation
nIt is very hard to determine a exact moment when law came to existence
nThere has ever been some control of recognized form of law
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primeval civilization
nAncient Egyptian law (twelve books)
nBabylonian law (Hammurabi)
nThe Torah from The Old testament
nAncient Greek city state
nRoman law
nIslamic law
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Egyptian law
nbased on the concept of Ma´at
nMa´at represents truth, order, balance and justice in the universe
nwhen the punishment was carried out, often the entire family of the guilty suffered as well
nSolon adapted many aspects of Egyptian law into legal system if Athens
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            Babylonian low
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nwe have a lot of archaeological material for the study of Babylonian law
nthe most famous is the Code of Hammurabi
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"an eye for an eye"
nthe witness who testifies falsely is to be slain
neven if a man builds a house badly, and it falls and kills the owner, the builder is to be slain
nif the owner's son was killed, then the builder's son is slain.
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Martin Luther King
nThat old law about 'an eye for an eye' leaves everybody blind. The time is always right to do the
right thing.
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Roman law
nthe law of ancient Rome from the time of the founding of the city in 753 BC until the fall of the
Western Empire in the 5th century AD
nTwelve tables (451–450 bc )
nCode of Justinian, Latin Codex Justinianus, formally Corpus Juris Civilis (“Body of Civil Law”)

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Islamic law
nOne of three big comprehensive legal system (Anglo-Saxon, Continental- European and Islamic)
nSharia -"the clear, well-trodden path to water".
nis the code of conduct or religious law of Islam
nQur´an- is the central religious text of Islam
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nThe Sharia regulates all human actions and puts them into five categories: obligatory (fard),
recommended (mustahabb), permitted (mubab), disliked (Makruh) or forbidden (haraam).
nImam- may also be a scholar, religious leader, or political leader
nSunni or Shi'a sect
nFigh- Islamic jurisprudence
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Magna Carta 1215
nThe Magna Carta was a collection of 37 English laws - some copied, some recollected, some old law
and some new law
nKing John of England
nMagna Carta was the first document forced onto an English King by a group of his subjects, the
feudal barons

Code Napoleonic
nalso known as the Code Napoleon or Code Civil, enacted by Napoléon I in 1804.
nforbade privileges based on birth,
nfreedom of religion
nfrom the Corpus Juris Civilis
npersons, property acquisition of property and civil procedure
nin accordance with the ideas of the French Revolution
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Aristotle
nAt his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst.


nhttp://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/hamcode.asp
nhttp://iuscivile.com/
nhttp://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/507759/Roman-law
nhttp://www.bbc.co.uk/religion/religions/islam/beliefs/sharia_1.shtml
nhttp://www.middle-ages.org.uk/middle-ages-justice-law.htm
nhttp://www.historyguide.org/intellect/code_nap.html
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