245 of foreign law, above all, Roman law. However, as has been earlier pointed out here, this development was not dependent upon natural law. The doctrines of natural lawcertainly played a significant role in the development of constitutional law in the seventeenth century and thereafter, partly to the benefit of those striving for a constitution (Locke), partly, and above all, for the building-up of Carolingian absolutism(Pufendorf). However, an influence upon legal usage in civil law, criminal law, or thelaw of legal procedurecannot be shown. Theactual legal theses that took shape under the principles of natural law in these fields were not in this period accepted in legal practice, and, in some cases, clearly rejected, as in the questionof the binding effect of a promise. Toward the end of the century work was initiated on a newlegal code. The final result was the law code of 1734. It was first during this period that opposition in principle to the continued acceptance of Roman law appeared in Sweden. Förkortningar: HD = Högsta domstolen HT = Historisk tidskrift KFÅ = Karolinska förbundets årsbok RA = Riksarkivet RoAPr = Ridderskapets och adelns protokoll SBL = Svenskt biografiskt lexikon SRP = Svenska riksrådets protokoll TfR = Tidsskrift for Rettsvidenskab
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