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3. Did somebody know something of the law before the Twelve Tables
were erected?
4. What were the Twelve Tables erected for?
5. Who gave juridical advice when asked for?
6. How often did the praetor publish his edict?
7. What did the praetor announce in his edict?
8. What legal task did the censors have?
9. What did the mysterious Gaius do?
10. When did Justinian try to unify law by codification on all levels?
11. What Roman law is concerned with?
12. What is less important in relation to Roman law?
13. When did great Roman lawyers treat all kinds of cases?
14. What did Justinian do to crown his achievement?
15. Who held great power over their wives, children and slaves?
16. What was the archaic Roman law characterized by?

Task 4. Pick out from the text all the word combinations with the
following words and give their Ukrainian equivalents.
To uphold of mores, code of law, decree, legal actions, law of
procedure, edict, great public trial, codification, legal procedure, law of
obligation.

Task 5. Complete the following expressions choosing a suitable
preposition from the list below; find the best way of expressing them
in Ukrainian.
1. The Roman Law is the law …. ancient Rome from the time
of the founding of the city in 753 BC until the fall of the Western Empire
in the 5th century AD.
2. In the great public trials, like the ones in which Cicero
became famous, his role was more akin … that of an orator than to the role
of a modern solicitor.
3. Roman law is concerned … the relationships … people,
their legal actions, and the right they have on goods.
4. The term Roman law today often refers … more than the
laws of Roman society.

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