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Civil law, on the other hand, owes its origin first to ancient Roman law – developed under the emperor Justinian – but also somewhat to the canon law of the Catholic Church.

This seminal work of Roman legal thought heavily drew its inspiration from Greek laws, particularly those of Solon of Athens. According to Roman historian Titus Livius, known in the English-speaking ...

Meanwhile the Roman civil wars raged on, as tempers flared between Mark Antony, Caesar's protégé, and Octavian, Caesar's adopted son. Repeatedly the two men divided the Roman world between them.

Since that time, Egypt has adopted a more Roman (Civil Law) system, in which matters involving personal status such as marriage, inheritance and divorce were made subject to Islamic substantive law.