roman law

Noun
  1. The legal code of ancient Rome;
    Codified under Justinian;
    The basis for many modern systems of civil law (synset 106546650)
    associated with:
    • addiction - (Roman law) a formal award by a magistrate of a thing or person to another person (as the award of a debtor to his creditor); a surrender to a master
    • novate - replace with something new, especially an old obligation by a new one
    • stipulate - make an oral contract or agreement in the verbal form of question and answer that is necessary to give it legal force
    is a type of: legal code - a code of laws adopted by a state or nation
    same as: civil law, jus civile, justinian code

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