Roman Law and the Legal World of the Romans

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in front of the Hordonian altar of Augustus at 9 am. Gaius Sulpicius Cinnamus asked that HS 1200 be promised, and Zenon of Tyre, freedman of Zenobius, made the promise. Done at Puteoli 9 June 52. This • vadimonium has the same function as the previous document. In this case, however, we see that the promiser is a non-Roman, and so not technically eligible to make a stipulatio . As a result, slightly different words are used in Latin for “promise,” and this is not technically a stipulatio (thought the practical effect seems to have been the same – as also in [10] ). Roman law made freed slaves of Romans into Roman cit- • izens. Here a freedman of a Tyrian is treated as a Tyrian himself. This probably reflects the creeping use of Roman legal principles abroad rather than a careful investigation of Tyrian law. An inheritance hearing before Lucius Granius Probus, duum vir . 2 Gaius Sulpicius Faustus asked Aulus Castricius Onesimus whether he was heir to Aulus Castricius Isochrysus and in what share. Aulus Castricius Onesimus replied that he was heir to Aulus Castricius Isochrysus with a 1/12 plus a fifth of a 1/24 2 “ Duumvir ” (something like a modern “mayor,” but literally just “one of two guys”) was the title given to the chief magistrates of many Roman towns, much as the two consuls were the chief executives of the central government. [3] TPSulp 23

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