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• Introduction
• Senatusconsulta
• Inserto edicti vocabulo
• Iudicum programmate
• Codex Theodosianus
• 26 March 429
• 20 December 435
• Laws included in the Theodosian Code
• Laws excluded from the Theodosian Code
• Legis vigor
• Rescripta in Novo Codice
• Rescripta et Responsa
• Cognoscens decrevit
• October 437
• 15 February 438
• Exclusive
• Universal
• Subseciva
• Conclusion
• The post-Theodosian Novels
• Novus Codex Justinianus (529)
• Digesta
• Exclusive
• The relation between the constitutions in the Digest and in the Code
• Decisiones et aliae constitutiones
• Codex repetitae praelectionis
• Exclusive and universal
• Institutiones
• The Justinian Novels
• Conclusions.

"This book is the last book written by the late Jan Lokin. Throughout his career, Lokin had written on and off about the theme of codification. He started writing about codification in 1984 and returned to the theme with this book. The term codification itself was coined by Jeremy Bentham. So, it is a bit of an anachronism to use the term codification in connection with the law codes of Theodosius II and Justinian, but it nevertheless describes these codes very well, as Lokin shows. He studied the two codifications of Late Antiquity in great detail and gives us an in-depth insight into the art of legislative technique during the reigns of both emperors. Lokin was finishing the book, when his final illness overtook him. Since dying is the last thing you do in life, he was unable to make any final corrections but, knowing the end was near, he asked Tom van Bochove to finalize the book. Jan knew Tom for the better part of forty years, so Tom’s solemn promise to prepare the book for printing gave him the reassurance that the job would be well done. Tom checked the literature, the sources and the references, and made the book ready for printing. In the end, the preparation of the book for publication was teamwork. The English was corrected by Anne-Marie Drummond. Pia Lokin- Sassen proofread the book. The book is a tribute to the memory of Jan Lokin, and the best one possible: a tribute he himself made"-- Provided by publisher.

• Band I. Einleitung
• Text
• Übersetzung
• Band II. Kommentar
• Glossar
• Indices
• Bibliographie

"The Peira is a textbook. The author worked in 11th-century Constantinople for one of the highest judges at the court of the Byzantine emperor, whose verdicts he used to create a legal primer. He copied aphorisms and arguments, cited cases and laws. This provides us with a unique glimpse into the largely overlooked imperial Byzantine legal system. This volume contains a critical edition of the text, a translation into German, and a commentary"-- Publisher's website

"Slaves were property of their dominus, objects rather than persons, without rights: These are some components of our basic knowledge about Roman slavery. But Roman slavery was more diverse than we might assume from the standard wording about servile legal status. Numerous inscriptions as well as literary and legal sources reveal clear differences in the social structure of Roman slavery. There were numerous groups and professions who shared the status of being unfree while inhabiting very different worlds.00The papers in this volume pose the question of whether and how legal texts reflected such social differences within the Roman servile community. Did the legal system reinscribe social differences, and if so, in what shape? Were exceptions created only in individual cases, or did the legal system generate privileges for particular groups of slaves? Did it reinforce and even promote social differentiation? All papers probe neuralgic points that are apt to challenge the homogeneous image of Roman slave law. They show that this law was a good deal more colourful than historical research has so far assumed. The authors? primary concern is to make this legal diversity accessible to historical scholarship"-- Provided by publisher.

"The Senatus Consultum de Cn. Pisone Patre is a senatorial decree issued in AD 20 following the trial of Gnaeus Calpurnius Piso, the governor of Syria, who was accused of rebellion against Tiberius following the death of his heir, Germanicus. It survives on several inscriptions and is among the most important documents from the early Principate. This new edition, with translation and commentary, sets the text within its contemporary context, considering it alongside other texts (including Tacitus' Annales), coins, and monuments, and focuses on their complementary roles in developing Tiberian political discourse. It explores how contemporary observers (including Valerius Maximus and Velleius Paterculus) understood and contributed to the shaping of dynastic rule at Rome after the death of Augustus in AD 14. It analyses how the Principate continued to evolve under his successor Tiberius, and explores the role of different individuals and groups in negotiating these political changes"-- Provided by publisher.

The Senatus Consultum de Cn. Pisone Patre is a senatorial decree issued in AD 20 following the trial of Gnaeus Calpurnius Piso, the governor of Syria, who was accused of rebellion against Tiberius following the following the death of his heir, Germanicus. It survives on several inscriptions and is among the most important documents from the early Principate. This new edition, with translation and commentary, sets the text within its contemporary context, considering it alongside other texts (including Tacitus' Annales), coins, and monuments, and focuses on their complementary roles in developing Tiberian political discourse. It explores how contemporary observers (including Valerius Maximus and Velleius Paterculus) understood and contributed to the shaping of dynastic rule at Rome after the death of Augustus in AD 14. It analyses how the Principate continued to evolve under his successor Tiberius, and explores the role of different individuals and groups in negotiating these political changes.

• List of Abbreviations
• Introduction
• I The Law of Obligations: Consensual Contracts
• II The law of obligations real contracts
• III The law of inheritance I cases without a slave context
• IV The law of inheritance II freedmen and freedwomen
• V Hellenistic municipal law
• Conclusion
• Bibliography
• Register

By the second century AD the Roman empire had grown into a vast multilingual and pluriform empire. Unlike in the Roman West, where the lingua franca was Latin, the inhabitants of the Roman East predominantly spoke Greek. From a legal perspective, these inhabitants of the Roman East lived in a legal culture not dominated by Roman law, but by norms from an Hellenistic legal culture. To resolve their legal controversies, these inhabitants of the Roman East sometimes asked advice from renowned jurists from the Roman West. Twenty-six cases of questions based on Greek documents from an Hellenistic legal culture can be seen in the Justinianic Digest. These cases were taken from three Roman jurists, namely Scaevola, Paul and Modestin. In this book, the legal strategies, which these three jurists used to come to an advice on cases from the Roman East, are examined. Did the jurists only apply Roman law or did they take the Hellenistic legal culture from which these cases originated into account? Furthermore, in this book the question is answered whether from these cases influences from Hellenistic legal cultures on Roman law can be demonstrated.

La guerre peut-elle être juste ? Doit-elle l'être ?00En Occident, il y a plus de deux millénaires, a commencé à s'élaborer une réflexion sur ce thème.00Il vous est ici proposé une passionnante pérégrination historique à travers l'Antiquité romaine - des origines à Saint Augustin -, durant laquelle se façonna la notion de guerre juste, au contact de la magie, des religions romaine puis chrétienne et bien sûr du droit.00S'il fut un peuple qui connut la guerre, ce fut bien les Romains, qui n'ont vécu, de la fondation du temple de Janus à la bataille d'Actium (soit pendant six siècles) que deux ans de paix.00La manière dont ils conçurent mentalement la guerre et surent vivre, année après année, avec elle, peut, en des temps incertains comme les nôtres, fournir matière à réflexion.00L'auteur présente avec érudition cet héritage romain et chrétien, qui a considérablement influencé la pensée du Moyen Âge et dont bénéficie notre civilisation.

• 1. Singularity and Impersonality in the Thought of Roman Jurists
• 2. Stories of Legal Dogmas, Stories of Roman Jurists: An Uncompleted Transitio
• n3. 'Kunstgeschichte' and 'Kunstlergeschichte'. The Problem of Literary Genres in the Roman Legal Literature
• 4. Historicity of Law and Ius Controversum in Italian Historiography of the Twentieth Century. The Work of Riccardo Orestano and Luigi Raggi
• 5. Roman Law and Roman Jurists in American Legal Culture
• 6. Law and Literature. The Case of Roman Jurisprudence in Latin Literary Works
• 7. Greek Thought and Roman Jurists: A Preliminary Survey on Pomponius's Enchiridion
• 8. Concerning Paul. 29 Ad Ed., D. 13.6.17
• .3: Officium, Beneficium, Commodare. (With an Appendix on the Alterity between Morality and Law)
• 9. Roman Jurists and the Empire: History and Interpretation
• 10. Aspects of the Critical Edition of Roman Juristic Works. The Example of Ulpian's De Officio Proconsulis
• 11. The Code System. Reorganizing Roman Law and Legal Literaturein the Late Antique Period.
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"This book provides a new approach to the study of the history of Roman law. It collects the first results of the European Research Council Project, Scriptores iuris Romani: dedicated to a new collection of the texts of Roman jurisprudence, highlighting important methodological issues, together with innovative reconstructions of the profiles of some ancient jurists and works. Jurists were great protagonists of the history of Rome, both as producers and interpreters of law, since the Republican Age and as collaborators of the principes during the empire. Nevertheless, their role has been underestimated by modern historians and legal experts for reasons connected to the developments of modern law in England and in continental Europe. This book aims to address this imbalance. It presents an advanced paradigm in considering the most important aspects of Roman law: the Justinian Digesta, and other juridical late antique anthologies. The work offers an historiographic model which overturns current perspectives and makes way for a different path for legal and historical studies. The focus is not on the Justinian codification, but on the individualities of ancient Roman jurists. As such, it presents the actual legal thought of its experts and authors: the ancient iuris prudentes"--Publisher's description

• 1. Introduction: Roman Law and Maritime Commerce / Peter Candy and Emilia Mataix Ferrandiz
• 2. Aspects of the Origins of Roman Maritime Trade / Gabriele Cifani
• 3. Contingent Seas: Seafaring, Contracts and Law / Peter B. Campbell
• 4. Pirates' Captives in Light of Roman Law / Anna Tarwacka
• 5. The Personal Infrastructure of Maritime Trade / Annalisa Marzano
• 6. On Dress el 20 and Beyond. Management, Punishment and Protection in the context of Roman Imperial Oil Distribution / Emilia Mataix Ferrandiz
• 7. Roman Documentation Concerning Shipping in Bulk / Gianfranco Purpura
• 8. Loans and Securities: Tracing Maritime Trade in the Archive of the Sulpicii / Eva Jakab
• 9. Credit for Carriage: TPSulp. 78 and Roxy. XLV 3250 / Peter Candy
• 10. The Allocation of Risk in Carriage-by-Sea Contracts / Roberto Fiori.

• Introduction
• Sources and methodology
• Family and inheritance
• Property
• Commerce
• Litigation
• Crime, delict, regulation and public order
• Epilogue

This book explains how Roman law worked for those who lived by it, by viewing it in the light of the society and economy in which it operated. Written in an accessible style with the minimum of legal technicality, the book is designed for students and teachers of Roman history as well as interested general readers. Topics covered include the family and inheritance, property and the use of land, business and commercial transactions, and litigation. In this second edition, all chapters have been extensively revised and updated, and a new chapter on crime and punishment has been included. The book ends with an epilogue covering the fate of Roman law in medieval and modern Europe. David Johnston is a lawyer practising in the courts and draws on his experience of law in practice to shape the work and provide new insights for his readers.
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• Introduction
• Coevolution of law and economy
• Mechanisms of legal evolution
• Economic environment
• Origins
• From forfeiture to sale
• From pignus to hypotheca
• From single to multiple pledge
• Pignus nominis and antichresis
• From special to general pledge
• Fiscal privileges and title registries
• Late classical execution practices
• Adaptedness of pignus and hypotheca

"The author outlines the legal history of the concepts of pignus and hypotheca in terms of an iterative relationship between transactional lawyers and Roman jurisprudence. The evolution of the Roman law of real security is reconstructed, with reference to actual banking practices documented from sources such as the archive of the Sulpicii"-- Provided by publisher

• The sources of law before the time of Justinian
• The time of Justinian
• From the end of the sixth century up to and including the Iconoclastic Period
• Macedonian Renaissance
• From the eleventh century up to 1453
• Canon law.

"In six chapters, this book explains and illustrates Byzantine law through a selection of fundamental Byzantine legal sources, beginning with the sources before the time of Justinian, and extending up to AD 1453. For all sources English translations are provided next to the original Greek or Latin text. In some cases, tables or other features are included that help further elucidate the source and illustrate its nature"-- Provided by the publisher.

• I. Formazione e natura dell'opera

• Acknowledgements A Note on Citations and Referencing
• Introduction
• A Note on Publication
• Antitribonian: Text (1603) and Translation
• Bibliography Index.
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Written c. 1567 (though unpublished until 1603), this is the work of an extraordinary scholar, a radical and polemicist, rival of many of the leading intellectual and political figures of his day. According to Francois Hotman's distinguished biographer Donald Kelley the Antitribonian 'is, or should be, a landmark in the history of social and historical thought'. It is also a landmark in the history of legal thought. The present edition is the first to evaluate Hotman's text in the context of the history of Roman law from the time of the sixth-century Byzantine Emperor Justinian I to the Germany of the Enlightenment.
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