Note 143 — XV THE HISTORY OF LEGAL DEVELOPMENT AT ROME AND IN ENGLAND

It is convenient to stop with Justinian, because he gave the law the shape in which it has influenced modern Europe, and because our historical data became much more scanty after his time. But of course the history of the law goes on to A.D. 1204, and in a sense even to A.D. 1453, in an unbroken stream, the codes issued by the later Emperors, and especially the Basilica of Leo the Philosopher, being based upon Justinian’s redaction.