Roman law
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Conservative and liberal judges alike questioned the arguments of Solicitor Gen. John Sauer, who represented the administration, saying he relied on “some pretty obscure sources,” including precedents that dated back to Roman law.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 5, 2026
Roman law considered the unborn a “potential person.”
From Washington Post • Jun. 10, 2022
Under Roman law slaves were considered property and had no legal personhood.
From Reuters • Nov. 6, 2021
Some of the concepts and practices of Roman law were to outlive the empire itself.
From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2020
He was trying to boil them down, from Customary, Canon and Roman law, into a single code which he hoped to call the Civil one.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
