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Decisions were not printed in any systematic method, so any case law that developed was disguised and almost unrecognised. Each case was to be determined afresh from the laws of the State, which mirrors the unimportance of judges’ selections for future circumstances in civil law methods today. From 529 to 534 AD the Byzantine Emperor Justinian I codified and consolidated Roman law up until that point, in order that what remained was one-twentieth of the mass of legal texts from before. As one authorized historian wrote, “Justinian consciously seemed again to the golden age of …


