ABSTRACT
One of the supreme achievements of Roman civilization was law. At its best this provided an efficient administration of justice within a framework of highly developed intellectual principles. The endeavours of the Romans in this field have won the admiration of many others, and even now it is hard not to be moved by the words of Ulpian, an author of the early third century: 'Justice is a fixed and everlasting desire to give to each person what is properly just... These are the precepts of the law: to live honourably, not to harm another, to render to each person what is rightly theirs'.
