The classification into branches of modern legal systems and roman law traditions

Abstract

This paper is based on the author’s opening lesson upon his entry into the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. He hereby discusses the various divisions in parts or branches of the Law throughout history, beginning with those formulated by Roman jurists of public and private Law, and of civil and praetorian (honorary) Law. The first one has undoubtedly some influence, which the author analyzes among the commentators, in the humanistic judicial practice, and in several later schools, with an extension to Scottish law and to the common law and, of course in the juridical science of the XIX and XX centuries.