List of Roman Laws - Other

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  • Constitution of the Roman Republic -Set the separation of powers and checks and balances of the Roman Republic
  • Acceptilatio – spoken statement of debt or obligation release
  • Constitutio Antoniniana – granted citizenship to the Empire's freemen
  • Corpus Iuris Civilis – codification by emperor Justinian
  • Stipulatio – basic oral contract
  • Twelve Tables – The first set of Roman laws published by the Decemviri in 451 BC, which would be the starting point of the elaborate Roman constitution. The twelve tables covered issues of civil, criminal and military law. Every Roman that went to school was supposed to know them by heart.

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