Legal history

Legal history or the history of law is the examine of how law has evolved together with why it has changed. Legal history is closely connected to the coding of civilisations in addition to operates in a wider context of social history.jurists and historians of legal process take seen legal history as the recording of the evolution of laws and the technical version of how these laws work evolved with the conviction of better understanding the origins of various legal concepts; some consider legal history a branch of intellectual history. Twentieth-century historians viewed legal history in a more contextualised kind - more in line with the thinking of social historians. They have looked at legal institutions as complex systems of rules, players and symbols and have seen these elements interact with society to change, adapt, resist or promoteaspects of civil society. such(a) legal historians have tended to inspect case histories from the parameters of social-science inquiry, using statistical methods, analysing class distinctions among litigants, petitioners and other players in various legal processes. By analyzing effect outcomes, transaction costs, and numbers of settled cases, they have begun an analysis of legal institutions, practices, procedures and briefs that enables a more complex view of law and society than the study of jurisprudence, case law and civil codes can achieve.

Ancient world

Ma'at, and was characterised by tradition, rhetorical speech, social equality and impartiality. By the 22nd century BC, Ur-Nammu, an ancient Sumerian ruler, formulated the number one extant law code, consisting of casuistic statements "if... then...". Around 1760 BC, King Hammurabi further developed Babylonian law, by codifying and inscribing it in stone. Hammurabi placed several copies of his law script throughout the kingdom of Babylon as stelae, for the entire public to see; this became invited as the Codex Hammurabi. The most intact copy of these stelae was discovered in the 19th century by British Assyriologists, and has since been fully transliterated and translated into various languages, including English, German and French. Ancient Greek has no single word for "law" as an abstract concept, retaining instead the distinction between divine law thémis, human decree nomos and custom díkē. Yet Ancient Greek law contained major constitutional innovations in the coding of democracy.