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en-wikipedia-org-2724		Roman law - Wikipedia			.html	text/html	6723	834	63	Roman law is the legal system of ancient Rome, including the legal developments spanning over a thousand years of jurisprudence, from the Twelve Tables (c. Roman law also denoted the legal system applied in most of Western Europe until the end of the 18th century. 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. Among the famous jurists of the republican period are Quintus Mucius Scaevola who wrote a voluminous treatise on all aspects of the law, which was very influential in later times, and Servius Sulpicius Rufus, a friend of Marcus Tullius Cicero. By the middle of the 16th century, the rediscovered Roman law dominated the legal practice of many European countries. One reason for this is that the English legal system was more developed than its continental counterparts by the time Roman law was rediscovered. Constitution (Roman law)	./cache/en-wikipedia-org-2724.html	./txt/en-wikipedia-org-2724.txt