Scope Of Chapter XLIV—The Civil or Roman Law
AD	Event
303-648	The First Period
648-988	Second Period
988-1230	Third Period, Their Philosophy , Authority, Sects
527	Reformation of the Roman Law by Justinian
527-546	Tribonian
528-529	The Code of Justinian
530-533	The Pandects or Digest; Praise and Censure of the Code and Pandects; Loss of the ancient Jurisprudence; Legal Inconstancy of Justinian
534	Second Edition of the Code
534-565	The Novels
533	The Institutes I. PERSONS. Freemen and Slaves; Fathers and Children; Limitations of the paternal Authority; Husbands and Wives; The religious Rites of Marriage; Freedom of the matrimonial Contract; Liberty and Abuse of Divorce; Limitations of the Liberty of Divorce; Incest, Concubines, and Bastards;Guardians and Wards II. THINGS. Right of Property Of Inheritance and Succession Civil Degrees of Kindred Introduction and Liberty of Testaments Legacies Codicils and Trusts III. ACTIONS Promises Benefits, Interest of Money Injuries IV. CRIMES AND PUNISHMENTS Severity of the Twelve Tables Abolition or Oblivion of Penal Laws Revival of capital punishments Measure of Guilt Unnatural Vice Rigour of the Christian Emperors Judgments of the People Select Judges Assessors Voluntary Exile and Death Abuses of Civil Jurisprudence

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