The Political Institutions and Theories of the Hindus: A Study in Comparative Politics c16.s1.t3.18

c16.s1.t3.18

This doctrine of “natural law”, of law as the “king of all things”, was maintained by the jurists such as Gaius and others whose views are codified in the *Digest* of Justinian. It was the theory also of Celsus and other Church Fathers. In medieval European (Teutonic) theory, so far as there was any theory independent of the traditions of Roman jurisprudence, law was not something “made” or “enacted” but something which existed as a part of the national, or tribal, “life”.