The New Constitutions of the Emperor Leo

THIS IS NOT A HASTILY ASSEMBLED SCAN OR "FACSIMILE EDITION" OF THIS WORK. EVERY LETTER AND WORD OF THE ORIGINAL HAS BEEN RESET AND CAREFULLY PROOFED FOR ACCURACY. By Late Antiquity Roman Law was seriously deteriorated and in a state of confusion. Centuries of non-systematic legal enactments by various Emperors, poorly kept records and numerous conflicting opinions presented by legal experts, especially during the even more tumultuous third to fourth centuries A. D., created a tangled web of laws and profound legal and political abuse. This is a vigorous translation by Henry Agylaeus of Emperor Leo's NEW CONSTITUTIONS, a direct precursor to the most comprehensive re-codification of law in the history of the world - the Emperor Justinian's CORPUS JURIS CIVILIS.