Abbreviations

C. Code of Justinian

Character P Stein, The Character and Influence of theRman aml Irnv: historical essays, London ig88

C. Th. Theodosian Code

D. Digest of Justinian

Inst.

TvR Tijdschrif voor Rechtsgeschiedmis

ZSS (RA) Zeitschrift der Savigny-Stfungfür Rechtsgeschichte (Romanistische

Abteilung)

Chronology

bg 753 Foundation of Rome

509 Constitution of the Roman republic

450 Twelve Tables enacted

367 Establishment of praetorship

44 Assassination of Julius Caesar

ad 14 Death of Augustus

c. i6i Institutes of Gaius

212 Constitutio Antoniniana

312 Conversion of Constantine to Christianity

395 Division of the empire into east and west

438 Theodosian Code

476 End of western empire

506 Visigothic Roman Law

527—65 Reign of Justinian

800 Coronation of Charlemagne

c. 1140 Decretum of Gratian

c. 1230 Glossa ordinaria of Accursius

1256-65 Siete partidas

^I3^I3-57 Bartolus

1495 Imperial Court established

1527-91 H. Donellus

1588-1657 A. Vinnius

1625 De iure belli acpacis of Grotius

1646-1716 G. W. Leibniz

1673 De officio hominis et civis of Pufendorf

1690 Les lois civiles dans leur ordre oalurel of Domat

1699-1772 R.J. Pothier

1779-1861 F K. von Savigny

1794 Prussian Allgemeines Landrecht

I804 French Code civil

Chronology

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1812 Austrian Allgemeines Bürgerliches Gesetzbuch

1817- 92 B. Windscheid

1818— 92 R. vonJhering

1822—88 Sir Henry Maine

1900 German Bürgerliches Gesetzbuch

The administrative dioceses of the later Roman empire.