n various forms to the provinces. Provincial governors toured the cities of their jurisdiction on an assize, hearing legal cases and determining them according to the most appropriate law code to the case. Disputes between Roman citizens—veteran soldiers who had settled in the province, for example—would be subject to Roman law. Cases between noncitizens might be left to the preexisting laws of the land, allowing the community to keep hold of an important measure of self-determination.34 In this respect, one of the most famous pronouncements on the reach of Roman law was made by Cicero during the dying days of the republic in the first century b.c. “There will not be one such law in Ro
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