ancient law
Bygone legal code
Ancient law refers to legal systems and codes from early civilizations—Babylonian, Roman, Hebrew, Greek.
The term often appears in legal history and jurisprudence: Ancient law recognized property rights we still honor today.
It can also mean long-established legal principles that persist through tradition rather than statute.
- Code of HammurabiAncient Babylonian legal collection
- legal codeSystematic collection of laws
- Justinian CodeSixth-century Roman legal compilation
- Twelve TablesEarly Roman legal code
- judgeOne who decides
sworn testimony · Dharma · cuneiform · stone tablet · Draco · Justice · oral tradition · decree · edict · Athens · city state · oath · praetor · stele · codification · scribe · an eye for an eye · trial by ordeal
- ancient lawsCode of Hammurabi, Hammurabi, Twelve Tables, Ten Commandments, Justinian Code
- ancient historyclassical antiquity, Mesopotamia, Babylon, Assyria, Sumer
- classicsHomer, Iliad, the Iliad, Odyssey, the Odyssey
- legal historylegal history, Roman jurisprudence, codification, legal codes, criminal codes
- Ancient WomenSappho, Cleopatra, Aspasia, Helen of Troy, Nefertiti
- Sanskrit Lawdigests