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Welcome to the Roman Law Quiz! Dive into the fascinating world of ancient legal systems and test your understanding of Rome's legal innovations, jurists, and the evolution of law through the ages.

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1. The main factor of legal innovations in ancient Roman law was:

New statutory regulations (leges)

Opinions of Roman jurists

Decisions of Roman kings

Early Christianity

2. The opinions of Roman jurists can be defined as:

Mandatory legal rules

- non binding recommendations

- judicial decisions

- teaching examples

The heart of legal method used by ancient jurists was:

Subsumption from the statutory regulations

Religion-based reasoning

Interpretation focused on the opinions of other jurists

References to customary law

The Justinians Digest is:

Modern constitution introduced by Justinian

The archival collection of jurists' opinions from the 1st to 3rd century AD.

The collection of jurists’ opinions from the 1st to 3rd century AD. Promulgated as binding law

The handbook of ancient Roman law

The main reason for studying Roman law in 11th century Italy was:

Adoption of discovered roman legal manuscripts as a basis for legal education

Constitution of the German Emperor declaring Roman law as binding in the empire

The centuries-old practice of the application of Roman Law

The influence of the more developed Byzantine Empire with its capital in Constantinopolis

The core of late medieval legal glosses was:

deleting passages from an ancient legal text to overcome contradictions

Clarification of words in an ancient legal text whose meaning was in doubt

defining key legal concepts

Supplementing or correcting an ancient legal text according to the state of medieval knowledge

The legal method of late medieval Roman law was

The result of the influence of the political power of the pope

The result of the influence of philosophy on other sciences

A continuation of the method of ancient Roman jurists

The maxim 'agreements must be kept' (pacta sunt servanda) is:

an example of ancient legal maxim popularized in the late medieval legal science

Not an uncommon example of a new maxim formulated by late medieval jurists

a unique example of a new maxim formulated by late medieval jurists

The use of Roman law in legal practice in early modern Europe was:

the same across all jurisdictions

Leading in Germany states, the Netherlands and Italian states;

leading in France and England

Leading in Germany states and Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth

The core of legal pluralism in early modern Europe was the:

A distinction between jurisdictions where Roman law applies and those where it does not

Application in a single jurisdiction of Roman law, local law and legal customs

The right of the judge to freely choose the law he will apply in the case

The core of tradition is that:

It refers to religion

Involves the extension of the past to the present

Is synonymous with history

Excludes the possibility of innovation

The inclusion of a particular jurisdiction in a specific legal tradition requires:

Lawmaker’s decision

Interest in a particular identity

Revolution

The essential difference between Islamic and civil law tradition is:

no interpretation in the Islamic tradition

Approach to the admissibility of changes to the law

rejection of the codification of law in the Islamic tradition

Marriage, according to Roman jurists, was:

A religious institution

A relationship arising from the nature

A civil law contract

Instrument of the political organization of societyan

When in Rome one of the spouses declared to the other that he did not want to continue in this marriage:

Could start the divorce process in court

only the husband could initiate the divorce process in court

Marriage was over

it didn't matter, the marriage was indissoluble

Was the result of the Protestant Revolution:

Allowing divorce as in Rome

Allowing divorces

Strengthening the rights of the wife to her husband's property

Ownership and possession

Are synonyms for power over a thing

are different legal positions

Ownership in modern law means what possession was in ancient Rome

The understanding of possession in modern private law is:

Uniform, consistent with the understanding in Roman law

Different, related to the legal title to the thing

Not uniform, but different as in Roman law

Remedies offered an owner by legal order are

Effective only against the one who took the thing from the owner

Effective against anyone who possesses a thing without the permission of the owner

effective against anyone who has become the possessor in bad faith

The liberal definition of ownership allows the exercise property rights

With respect to the social duties of any citizen

Unless the law introduces prohibitions

Without any limits

The discussion of jurists about ownership focused in Rome on:

Definitions of this right in rem

boundaries of property rights of the owner

philosophical foundation of ownership

For the idea of the abuse of right is essential today:

continuity from antiquity until codifications

the link property right and social aims of this right

the intention to harm another

The purchase of the thing from a possessor without a title:

never has made purchaser the owner of the thing

the good faith purchaser of a movable thing became owner

Purchase of ownership in result of adverse possession (usucapio) NOT needed:

the continue possession for the defined period

Good faith of purchaser of movables

legal title by seller

The requirement of formal ritual for the transfer of ownership in Rome was:

limited to things essential for agriculture production

justified by the sacral nature of ownership

Applied to non-Romans purchasers

Under causal model of the transfer of ownership:

the invalidity of the underlying transaction makes the transfer of ownership void

non-payment by the purchaser makes the transfer of ownership void

Under abstract model of the transfer of ownership:

the lack of legal title of seller does not prevent the acquisition of ownership

The invalidity of underlying transaction does not prevent the acquisition of ownership

When the heir left only debts and liabilities:

inheritance is excluded due to lack of assets

inheritance existed due to the principle of universal succession

The appointment of one heir in the Roman will to part of the estate was:

Always allowed

Allowed only in soldiers' wills

Never allowed

Allowed only in wills of officials

The appointment of one heir in the modern will to part of the estate was:

always allowed

never allowed

allowed in a limited number of jurisdictions

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