Procedural law: Quick Facts

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Also Known As	legal proceeding • legal procedure • adjective law

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Mosaic portrait of Emperor Justinian I with a jeweled crown and halo, from the 6th-century Basilica of San Vitale in Ravenna, Italy.

Charles Le Brun: Portrait of King Louis XIV

Jacques-Louis David: The Emperor Napoleon in His Study at the Tuileries

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Gnaeus Flavius

Roman law scholar