FUNDAMENTAL TENDENCIES IN MODERN JURISPRUDENCE

The reception of Roman law presented new problems to jurisprudence. At the end of the fifteenth century the reception of Roman law and canon law, together with the Lombard feudal law, was complete throughout the entire continent of Europe. As a matter of fact, Roman law had come northward in the East from Constantinople at the same time that it was coming into Germany from the South and West; but that is for our question of no particular importance. The chief point is that everywhere there was the need of becoming familiar with this foreign law, so far as that was possible.