ABSTRACT
Due to the expansion of Roman power and the changes that this expansion brought about in the socio-economic field the old legal system was no longer adequate. Archaic law, as was mentioned earlier, was closely bound up with religion and consequently it was very formalistic and exclusively Roman; the latter was nothing out of the ordinary in view of the fact that Roman territory was still very limited in size. The late republic saw a number of important changes in the law which can be summarised by the terms secularisation, internationalisation and liberalisation.1
