Unit 4 THE HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT OF LAW Snježana Husinec, PhD; E-mail: SHUSINEC@pravo.hr

Major stages in the history of law I Answer questions 1. and 2. on p. 25 II Take a look at the following codes/types of law. Have you ever heard of them? When were they created? Where were they in force? Try to put them in the chronological order. The Napoleonic Code Corpus Juris Civilis The German Civil Code customary law The law of the Twelve Tables The Hammurabi Code Canon law The laws of Solon

Major stages in the history of law Read the text and find the major codifications mentioned in the text. Put them in the table. Add the time when they were created and the area in which they were in applied. Code Time Area

1. Hammurabi code 1760 Babylon 2. The laws of Solon 6th century BC Athens 3. The law of the Twelve Tables $50 BC Ancient Rome 4. Corpus Juris Civilis 529-534 AD The Byzantine Empire 5 the Napoleonic Code 1804 6. The German Civil Code (BGB) 1900

Vocabulary practice 1. a code = zakonik (written code, civil code) Find the following legal terms in the text. What is the context in which they are used? What are their Croatian equivalents? 1. a code = zakonik (written code, civil code) 2. customary law = 3. canon law = 4. to legislate = 5. legislation = 6. jurist = 7. civil law = 8. jurisdiction = 9. precedent =

Historical documents The Bill of Rights (1689)   An Act Declaring the Rights and Liberties of the Subject and Settling the Succession of the Crown (1689) - an English act of Parliament; - one of the basic documents of English constitutional law, alongside Magna Carta, the 1701 Act of Settlement and the Parliament Acts; forms part of the law of some other Commonwealth nations, such as New Zealand.  - a statement of certain positive rights that its authors considered that citizens and/or residents of a free and democratic society ought to have 

Historical documents Read the excerpt from the Bill of Rights (1689) and do ex. IV, V and VI. Translate the expressions in bold. Do ex. VII. Summarize the content of the excerpt in plain English.