Roman law or Roman influence is the legal system of ancient Rome, and the legal developments comprising more than a thousand years of jurisprudence from the Twelve Tables (c. 439 BC) to the Corpus Juris Civilis (AD 529) ordered by the emperor Justinian I.


The Roman law displayed via fascism, which consisted or symbolized by a bundle of rods that were tied around an axe, was an ancient Roman symbol of the authority of the civic magistrate. 
While the dictators (liken unto the presidents) via this same law, hade the responsibity of the censor, overseeing certain aspect of the government’s finances and supervising public behaviors, so that the people’s conduct may line up with the desired interests of Rome.


The Roman law was the law via which the Roman supremes forced and subjected their conquered victims into the act of paying tribute, tax and honor to Rome.

This also included the practice of worshiping the pagan Roman gods. 


Each nation conquered or had some kind of dealings with Rome, was also obligated to give honor, to worship, and to attend the market trading, where the idols and statues of the Roman gods and Emperors were sold. 


The Roman law thus served as a basis for legal practice throughout Western continental Europe, as well as in most former colonies of these European nations. including Latin America, and also in Ethiopia.

Via the Roman law; legal practices which governs colonialism, the right of owning slaves, business transactions among traders, human trafficking, prostitution, Roman mythologies, infiltrated into other western (European) culture through this law called the Roman law.

English and North American common law were influenced also by Roman law, notably in their Latinate legal glossary (for example, stare decisis, culpa in contrahendo, pacta sunt servanda).

Article written by apostle Ngabo Alex