TY - JOUR
AU - Bryson, W. Hamilton
AB - The U se of Roman Law in Virginia Courts by W. HAMILTON BRYSON* By statute;' the courts of Virginia are required to decide cases according to the principles of the English common law." However, they are not forbidden to resort to any other legal system where the common law of England is silent. Moreover, when the English courts themselves have no English law on a particular point, they often look to the Roman law in its ancient or its current form for guidance. Therefore, it is not unreasonable for Virginia courts to do likewise, and in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, in fact, they did. The purpose of this essay is to consider how far the Virginia courts have used the Roman law, whether in its ancient form as compiled by the Emperor Justinian in the sixth century A.D., or in its evolved form as the current law of the various countries of conti­ nental Europe. The first great age of the Roman law was the period of the Roman jurists from about one hundred to four hundred A.D. After a period of decline, Justinian in the sixth century ordered the classical Roman law to be codified. However, Justinian 
TI - The Use of Roman Law in Virginia Courts
JF - American Journal of Legal History
DO - 10.2307/845220
DA - 1984-04-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/the-use-of-roman-law-in-virginia-courts-iaiBpc0n4l
SP - 135
EP - 146
VL - 28
IS - 2
DP - DeepDyve
ER -