The Influence Of Justinian's Code

Justinian’s Code was the law system used by the Byzantine Empire. These laws were based from the laws that the Roman Empire lived by. The system focused on the religion of Christianity and how the religion should be practiced by the empire. The outcome of these laws gave the emperor the power to have the authority that is final. Justinian’s Code was a law system created by Justinian I that was based off of The Twelve Tables, if this Byzantine law system were to still be used today the consequences that society would be given would be more extreme. Justinian’s Code was based from the Twelve Tables, which was the law system that Roman’s followed. Justinian had laws added to the code, taken out, or slightly changed to fit his ideal needs, as was stated, “Although the laws passed during Justinian's reign would be included, the Codex was not a completely new legal code, but an aggregation of existing laws, portions of the historic opinions of great Roman legal experts, and an outline of law in general”(Snell). This was done to fit the ideas that Justinian had about the needs for the empire. The laws that were changed had to fit with the religion that influenced the system. There were important influences on the law system, such as religion. Individuals had to practice Christianity to be an actual citizen which is said in an article, “Numerous
The problems would be brought to Justinian to get his final say as to what should be the consequence, and was stated, “The Code's underlying claim that the emperor's will was supreme in all things made imperial control of the Church legal and thus deeply influenced the subsequent development of the Byzantine Church”(Kamasarye). No matter what the problem was, Emperor Justinian was the one who thought of and gave the consequences to the individual that committed the crime. This way of doing whose authority is final, is similar to today’s