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found its way into northern Italy. Scholars in the emerging University of Bologna, who previously had access to only a limited portion of the Justinianic code, sparked an intellectual rediscovery of Roman law through the teaching of law based on Byzantine law texts. Courts gradually applied Byzantine law--as taught in Bologna (and soon elsewhere)--first as law in subsidium to be applied when there was no local statute or custom in point, and later because

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