The rediscovery of the Justinian Code in the early 10th century rekindled a passion for the discipline of law, initially shared across many of the re-forming boundaries between East and West.
[1] Eventually, it was only in the Catholic or Frankish west that Roman law became the foundation of all legal concepts and systems.
[7] As a general proposition, the concept of legal culture depends on language and symbols and any attempt to analyse non western legal systems in terms of categories of modern western law can result in distortion attributable to differences in language.
[7] So while legal constructs are unique to classical Roman, modern civil and common law cultures, legal concepts or primitive and archaic law get their meaning from sensed experience based on facts as opposed to theory or abstract.
Legal culture therefore in the former group is influenced by academics, learned members of the profession and historically, philosophers.