Sources du Droit dans le contexte de la réception du Droit Romain Byzantin en Grèce

Abstract

It was during the long era of the Turltish yoke that the subject Greek
nation underwent the process of accepting the Roman-Byzantine legislation,
a process carried out without much ado or awareness of its significance.
Justice was dispensed through bishops and independent arbitrators (village
elders and/or notables). The former did so on the basis of Roman-Byzantine
Law, the latter according to the evolving customs.
During this continuous process, Law sources, both written and oral,
were being reshaped and moulded through force and through the developing
legal conscience of the nation.
Through the interweaving of these sources, emerged a new legislation
responding to culminating contemporary socio-historical needs,
The Royal Decree issued on February 23, 1835, constitutes, despite the
many objections raised to its meaning and context, a formal recognition of the
acceptance of Roman-Byzantine Legislation, which had already been factually
accomplished through the aforesaid process.