查士丁尼立法活动的经济原因探析

On the Economic Cause of Justinian' s Legislation

“拜占廷皇帝查士丁尼主持编纂的《罗马民法大全》对后世法律特别是对当今西方两大法系——大陆法系和 英美法系产生了持久而深远的影响。本文主要从6世纪拜占廷农业中封建生产关系的进一步发展、手工业的繁荣、商业的 发达等经济层面剖析了查士丁尼立法的原因。

Corpus Juris Civilis compiled by Justinian was the focus of the Roman law, it deeply influenced the world law hereafter, particularly in Continental law system and Anglo-American law system. This article analyses the economic cause of its compiling through expounding the further development of feudalism in the agriculture, the prosperous handicraft and active commerce in the 6th century in the Byzantine.