Roman law

The article examines the influence of Roman law and the Constitutio Criminalis Carolina on the formation of criminal law norms in the possessions of the Habsburg monarchy of the eighteenth century. It is emphasized that the study of this issue is of key importance for understanding the evolution of the legal system of the Habsburg monarchy, and is also relevant given the need to understand the origins of modern criminal law, its historical foundations and the legal traditions which shaped it.

Based on analysis of the fundamental values of Roman law that reflected and embodied in many national legal systems of Western Europe, reveals characteristics of the formation of the concepts of these systems. It was found that borrowing ideas and provisions of the Roman law was carried out through its basic principles, namely cosmopolitism, multiculturalism, fairness and individualism. Found that spirit, idea, principles of Roman law had a positive effect on the national legal system.