PLEASE HELP ME WILL GIVE 30 POINTS (a) Roman law has influenced the legal systems of many countries in the world. What does ‘ius
civile’ mean, and explain in a sentence what the purpose of this law is. (b) How did Roman law reflect the ingrained social inequality of Roman society? (c) Explain why “a slave’s lot depended largely on circumstance”
a) The term jus civile, meaning “civil law,” for example, was used in ancient Rome to distinguish the law found exclusively in the city of Rome from the jus gentium, the law of all nations, found throughout the empire.
Roman lawyers and magistrates originally devised jus gentium as a system of equity applying to cases between foreigners and Roman citizens. The concept originated in the Romans' assumption that any rule of law common to all nations must be fundamentally valid and just.
The Ordinance of 1787 did the South no harm, and the North no good<span>. Illinois, for instance, was a slave territory. Even in 1840, there were 331 slaves in Illinois.</span>
