On: Contradictions in Roman law left incurable headach...

[vmception]

> After hearing the prosecution and the defence, they asked everyone to return to hear their judgment in 100 years’ time, neatly avoiding the need to ever make a decision.

How delightfully unsatisfactory but a neat way to resolve it. If these things did get into history books, a consensus likely would have been reached in the collective minds by then.

[neilwilson → vmception]

That technique still exists today. When justices reserve judgment you find there is no mechanism to require they pass judgement.

The long grass is sometimes useful.