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 | Code of Justinian |
| 530-533 | Pandects or Digest; Praise & Censure of the Code & Pandects Loss of the ancient Jurisprudence Legal Inconstancy of Justinian |
| 534 | Second Edition of the Code |
| 534-565 | The Novels |
| The Institutes (AD 533) | |
| Persons | Freemen & Slaves; Fathers & Children; Limitations of paternal Authority Husbands & Wives; religious Rites of Marriage; Freedom of matrimonial Contract; Liberty & Abuse of Divorce Limitations of Liberty of Divorce Incest, Concubines, & Bastards Guardians & Wards |
| Things | Right of Property; Of Inheritance & Succession; Civil Degrees of Kindred Introduction & Liberty of Testaments Legacies; Codicils & Trusts |
| Actions | Promises, Benefits Interest of Money; Injuries |
| Crime & Punishment | Severity of the 12 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 & Death; Abuses of Civil Jurisprudence |