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This Corpus Juris of Justinian continued to be the main law book of what was left of the Roman imperial world long after Justinian’s ruling. His system of law continued to develop even further in the Eastern Empire until the very fall of Constantinople to the Turks in 15th century. However, the real resurrection of Roman law occurred in the West. Corpus Juris Civilis was rediscovered in Bologna, Italy, at the end of 11th century and became the reason for the establishment of Europe’s first university and the first law faculty. From there Roman law spread across all Catholic Europe with England being an important exception. By the 16th century Roman law was in force throughout most of Europe. However, in the process of adoption, many Roman rules were mixed up or changed in way to better suit the legal norms and specifics of the various European nations. In general the rules that were applied by the European countries at that period were identical to the Roman law from Justinian’s time. Nonetheless, the law that has evolved was common to the most European countries and so it was called Ius Commune (common law) <ref>N.B.! to be distinguished from the Common law system, based on precedent</ref>. In this form Roman law was in force in many countries until national codes were later created in 18th and 19th centuries. For example - in Germany Roman law remained the primary legal source until 1900 when the German Civil Code was first introduced.