Tag: code

Corpus Iurus Civilis, By order of Justinian I (529-534)

Corpus Iurus Civilis, By order of Justinian I (529-534)

Source(s): www.freewebs.com/vitaphone1/history/justinianc.html www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/corpus1.asp   Although Law as practiced in Rome had grown up as a type of case law, this was not the “Roman Law” known to the Medieval, …

 

“Un coup de dés jamais n’abolira le hasard”, Mallarmé (1897)

“Un coup de dés jamais n’abolira le hasard”, Mallarmé (1897)

  Mallarmé’s Preface of 1897 ‘I would prefer that this Note was not read, or, skimmed, was …

 

Code of Hammurabi (1772 BC)

Code of Hammurabi (1772 BC)

Perhaps the most remarkable and influential creation of its time, Hammurabi’s code is the oldest set of laws known to exist. Hammurabi, king and chief …