Chapter 2 Multiple choice questions

. Which other "sources of law" mentioned by Cicero are not listed in the other two statements on the sources of Roman law that have been preserved?

Custom, equity and decided cases.

Statutes, equity and resolutions of the senate.

Writings of the jurists, statutes and edicts of magistrates.

Custom, edicts of magistrates and equity.

. The main sources of law in the archaic period were:

Custom and statute.

Statute and Royal decree.

Custom and the edicts of magistrates.

Custom and Royal decree.

. The main sources of law in the Republic (i.e. the pre-classical period) were:

Legislation, edicts of magistrates and juristic writings.

Custom, equity and juristic writings.

Edicts of magistrates, legislation and custom.

Equity, legislation and Imperial decrees.

. The 12 Tables were:

A comprehensive codification of all of Roman law.

A partial codification of most of Roman law.

Merely a redaction into writing of certain controversial rules of law.

A code of private law in the nineteenth-century sense.

. The ius honorarium was:

A body of law developed through the edicts of magistrates.

A body of law created to replace the old civil law.

A body of law exclusively created for use by foreigners.

A body of law exclusively created for use by Roman citizens.

. Which type of Imperial decree is sometimes omitted from the list of 'sources of law' in the Imperial period?

Edicta.

Decreta.

Mandata.

Rescripta.

. The main activities of the jurists of the classical period (i.e. the first three centuries of the Empire) were:

Advising, teaching and writing.

Litigating, judging, teaching.

Teaching, advising, judging.

Advising, teaching, litigating.

. The differences of opinion on matters of law between the Proculians and Sabinians were based on:

Political allegiance.

Philosophical doctrine.

Personal allegiance.

All of the above.

. The first phase of Justinian's legislative program involved the updating of:

Juristic law.

A textbook for law students.

Imperial law.

50 Decisions.

. The 50 Decisions were:

A set of Imperial decrees designed to pave the way for law reform.

A collection of juristic writing.

A restatement of the 12 Tables.

A collection of statutes.

. The Digest is an anthology of:

Imperial law.

Statutes.

Case law.

Juristic writing.

. The Novels are:

A textbook for law students.

Additional Imperial decrees enacted during Justinian's reign.

An anthology of juristic writing.

An updated code of Imperial law.

. The most plausible reason for the speed with which the Digest project was completed is:

The existence of a pre-Digest.

That the books that the commission claim to have read were in fact not read.

Political problems such as the Nika Riots.

All of the above.

. Which of the following is not one of the so-called 'Barbarian Codes' of the early medieval period?

Theodosian Code.

Lex Romana Visigothorum.

Lex Romana Burgundionum.

Edictum Theodorici.

. The most plausible reason why individual jurists ceased to play an important role in the post-classical period was:

Political instability.

The inability of the jurists to sustain the classical endeavours.

Bureaucratic reforms by Diocletian.

All of the above.

. The last of the 'named' classical jurists was:

Gaius.

Modestinus.

Paul.

Ulpian.

. The jurist most frequently cited in the Digest is:

Paul.

Papinian.

Ulpian.

Gaius.

. Choose the correct answer. The right to give 'authoritative responses' (ius respondendi):

was introduced during the reign of Augustus.

may have been introduced for political reasons.

gave the opinions of certain jurists binding legal effect by the time of Gaius.

all of the above are correct.

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