"Veni, vidi, vici," or "I came, I saw, I conquered," is a phrase popularly attributed to Julius Caesar — but why did the ...

Two Muslim women are suing the county, O.C. Sheriff Don Barnes and sheriff's deputies over the forced removal of their ...

As we prepare to celebrate the founding of this nation, let’s keep this in mind: Religious liberty is fundamental to American ...

The concept of community property exists to protect spousal rights. Some consider the law to have originated in Spanish law, a system of civil law derived from Roman civil law and the Visigoth Code.

The nation’s largest Latino civil rights organization is warning against “reckless behavior” at protests as demonstrations against President Trump’s immigration policies spread across the ...

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.

The legislation, signed into law last week by Gov. Bob Ferguson, a Democrat, requires members of the clergy to report child abuse or neglect to authorities, even if that knowledge arises during ...

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.

Bernard Law, the embattled former Boston cardinal whose legacy amid the clergy sex abuse scandal ushered in a painful era for the Roman Catholic Church, has died in Rome at the age of 86 ...

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