The law in ancient egypt functioned just as it does in any country today there was a set of agreed upon rules which had been formulated by men who were considered experts in the field a judicial system which weighed evidence of infractions of those rules and police officers who enforced those rules and brought transgressors to justice. Egyptian law the law that originated with the unification of upper and lower egypt under king menes c 2925 bc and grew and developed until the roman occupation of egypt 30 bc the history of egyptian law is longer than that of any other civilization. Law in ancient egypt civil courts and it was called the city court which was composed of judges and headed by employees of the regions while in the capital it was headed by the minister and there were special courts formed by the order of the pharaoh. The ancient egyptian legal system was based on common sense the egyptian goddess maat was the goddess of justice basically the law followed the teachings of maat according to the priests about what was right and wrong no remains of written laws have been found