Roman Law and the Legal World of the Romans

Roman Law and the Legal World of the Romans

see Chapter 15). And Babatha herself seems (though this is not entirely clear) to have been involved in a polygamous mar riage. As in the reverse case, the “remnants” of local law may be quite shallow. In fact, it is not inconceivable that strictly Roman law was ultimately imposed on the persons named in the archive, despite the fact that they were trying to operate on more traditional principles. Nonetheless, it seems hard to doubt that the law governing this particular place at this particular time was “some of this and some of that,” and probably more than a little of both.

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