Roman Law and the Legal World of the Romans

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Here we have a receipt for money loaned (as in • [9] ), but the borrower is the city of Puteoli. The city is represented in this transaction not as a corporation, but by the person of the treasurer (it happens that I write my property-tax checks to one “Nelda Wells-Spears” (the county tax collector–as sessor) rather than to “Travis County”). The use of a public (i.e., city-owned) slave here, rather than an elected magis trate, clarifies the situation, since the former could be trans acting only on behalf of his owner, while the latter might be working for himself.

[12] TPSulp 60

Accounts of Titinia Antracis

Paid out to Euplia of Melos, daughter of Theodorus, with the approval of her tutor Epichares of Athens, son of Alexander: HS 1,600. He asked for and received HS 1,600 from her domestic chest… For the chest. Epichares of Athens, son of Aphrodisius, at the prompting of Titinia Antracis, offered a guarantee to Titinia Antracis for the above-mentioned HS 1,600 in cash on behalf of Eulpia of Melos, daughter of Theodorus. Done at Puteoli 20 March 43. On the one hand, this document is formally different from • most of the above because it is a record for the creditor’s own accounting of what happened, not the agreement of the

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