29th December 2005, 07:41 PM
The long arm of roman law did reach Britain. A small selection of laws that came with the Romans are contract law, property laws, inheritance laws, business law etc. The laws applied to all Roman citizens and everyone else who was not a Roman citizen but living under the rule of the Roman empire. Citizens had more legal rights, such as being able to vote, than non-citizens.
The Britons were not all automatically Roman citizens following the invasion. To be a full-fledged Roman citizen one must have been born to a male Roman citizen.
Example: A native British woman has a baby with a Roman citizen (not a slave) then the child is a Roman citizen but the mother is not.
A native British woman has a children with a native British man, the child is not a Roman citizen.
The majority of the population of Roman Britain would be Roman citizens within one or two generations of the invasion.
There are aspects of roman law that are familiar to us today ie. magistrates, senators, wills, contracts etc.
Many modern legal systems around the world are based on Roman Law.
I am aure what I have written is correct but it has been awhile and Roman Law wasn't my best class.
The Britons were not all automatically Roman citizens following the invasion. To be a full-fledged Roman citizen one must have been born to a male Roman citizen.
Example: A native British woman has a baby with a Roman citizen (not a slave) then the child is a Roman citizen but the mother is not.
A native British woman has a children with a native British man, the child is not a Roman citizen.
The majority of the population of Roman Britain would be Roman citizens within one or two generations of the invasion.
There are aspects of roman law that are familiar to us today ie. magistrates, senators, wills, contracts etc.
Many modern legal systems around the world are based on Roman Law.
I am aure what I have written is correct but it has been awhile and Roman Law wasn't my best class.