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| | Medieval Sourcebook: Corpus Iuris Civilis: The Digest and Codex: Marriage Laws |
 | | Roman law developed as a mixture of laws, senatorial consults, imperial decrees, case law, and opinions issued by jurists. |
 | | One of the most long lasting of Justinian's actions was the gathering of these materials in the 530s into a single collection, later known as the Corpus Iuris Civilis [The Code of Civil Law]. |
 | | As a system of law based on principles, not case law, it was re-invigorated by Napoleon and in that form remains the basis of the legal system of most of continental Europe, as well as the former colonial dependencies of those European countries [including most of Africa, China, Latin America and Japan]. |
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