# Ratio scripta

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"'''Ratio scripta'''", or "written reason", was the assessment of [Roman law](/source/Roman_law) commonly held in Europe during the [Medieval period](/source/Middle_Ages).<ref>[http://www.people.virginia.edu/~rjb3v/latin.html International Law – Terms and Phrases<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> It emerged during the revival of Roman law, serving as the basis of the [''ius commune''](/source/Jus_commune).<ref name=":0">{{Cite book|title=Ratio and Voluntas: The Tension Between Reason and Will in Law|last=Tuori|first=Kaarlo|author-link=Kaarlo Tuori|date=2016|publisher=Routledge|isbn=9781409420132|location=Oxon|pages=61}}</ref> It was also used to evaluate the validity of ''leges propria'' or the local customs and positive legislation.<ref name=":0" /> Ratio scripta is also used to denote the popular opinion of Roman law held during the Medieval period.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gfdRDwAAQBAJ&q=Ratio+scripta&pg=PT3808|title=Essential 25000 English-Norwegian Law Dictionary|last=Nguyen|first=Nam H.|date=2018-03-18|publisher=Nam H Nguyen|language=no}}</ref> It could also mean the written opinion of a tribunal explaining its decision over a case.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/acref/9780195369380.001.0001/acref-9780195369380-e-1784|title=Ratio scripta n. : Guide to Latin in International Law|chapter=Ratio scripta |date=January 2011 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=9780195369380}}</ref> 

Ratio scripta was the basis of the popularity of the Roman law in medieval Europe. According to scholars, the Roman law was widely adopted because ''ratio'' or reason meant the law.<ref name=":1">{{Cite book|title=Comparative Legal History|last1=Moréteau|first1=Olivier|last2=Masferrer|first2=Aniceto|last3=Modéer|first3=Kjell A.|date=2019|publisher=Edward Elgar Publishing|isbn=9781781955215|location=Cheltenham, UK|pages=228}}</ref> In France, for instance, the Roman law is often invoked as a standard and as a reference to the law in general.<ref name=":1" /> 

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