To this committee shall be referred, in accordance with the rules, all legislative instruments, messages, petitions, memorials and different issues regarding the following topics: Matters encompassed by the Civil Code and Civil Code Ancillaries, together with, without limitation, matters affecting individuals generally, marriage, divorce and issues of household legislation, tutorship and curatorship, things generally, use and usufruct, servitudes, successions, donations, obligations usually, extinction of obligations, delicts and quasidelicts, matrimonial agreements, sales and leases, and prescription; Code of Civil Procedure, and civil process usually; Rules of civil legislation evidence; Notaries public and their data; Mineral Code; Trust Code; Questions of constitutional rights-civil; Proposed amendments to the state structure, after preliminary consideration in committee of material, if different from Civil Law and Procedure.
Emperor Justinian I dominated historic Rome from 527 A.D. to 565 A.D. One of his lasting legacies is his rewriting of Roman regulation in Corpus Juris Civilis,” (Body of …