John Locke, in his Two Treatises of Government, and Baron de Montesquieu in The Spirit of the Laws, advocated for a separation of powers between the political, legislature and government our bodies. Their principle was that no particular person ought to have the ability to usurp all powers of the state, in contrast to the absolutist theory of Thomas Hobbes’ Leviathan.
From 529 to 534 AD the Byzantine Emperor Justinian I codified and consolidated Roman regulation up until that time, in order that what remained was one-twentieth of the mass of legal texts from before. Western Europe, in the meantime, relied on a mix of the Theodosian Code and Germanic customary regulation until the Justinian Code was rediscovered in the eleventh century, and students at the University of Bologna used it to interpret their own laws.
There are distinguished strategies of legal reasoning and strategies of interpreting the law. The … Read More
