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450 BCEThe laws of the 'Twelve Tables', the basis of Roman law, are compiled.
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367 BCELaw passed enabling Roman plebians to become consuls.
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339 BCEThe leges Publilae decrees that one of Rome's two censors must be a plebeian.
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c. 242 BCESpecial magistrates (praetor peregrinus) begin to oversee legal disputes concerning non-Roman citizens.
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131 CEThe Praetor's Edict is first codified, an annual pronouncement on alterations to Roman law.
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212 CECaracalla's edict grants Roman citizenship to all free inhabitants of the Roman Empire.
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c. 292 CEThe 'Codex Gregorianus' is compiled, a collection of summaries of Roman legal documents.
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295 CEThe 'Codex Hermogenianus' is compiled, a collection of summaries of Roman legal documents.
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c. 430 CE - 439 CEThe 'Theodosian Code', a collection of over 2,700 Roman laws is compiled.
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528 CE - 534 CEThe 'Codex Iustinianus' is compiled, a collection of summaries of Roman legal documents.
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533 CEThe 'Digest' part of the 'Corpus Iuris Civilus' is composed and summarises over 2000 Roman legal documents.