Roman Law and the Legal World of the Romans

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adoption, 183–4, 212 adultery, 68, 74, 171, 180; see also crime(s) advocate, see legal professionals aedile, see magistrate(s) agency, 109, 151 agnate, 158–60, 168 appeal, 116, 118–19 apud iudicem , 114–16, 118, 239 arra(bo), 225–6, 245–6

formal, 121–2 hire/lease, 129–30, 240–1, 242 litteris , 93

loan ( mutuum ), 133, 245, 247, 251 partnership ( societas ), 130–2, 151 pledge, 133, 224–5, 240–1, 244, 245, 251 real, 133–4 sale, 32, 93–4, 127–9, 212, 224, 228–9, 240, 261 stipulatio , 92, 96–7, 122–3, 126, 227, 237–8, 245 Constantine (emperor), 93, 185 constitution, 26–7 consul, see magistrate(s) conubium , 104, 174, 217 crime(s), 67, 73, 75, 102–3, 187–8, 195–204 adultery, 69, 203 ambitus (electoral bribery), 199 arson, 203 falsum (forgery), 201 homicide, 200 maiestas (“treason”), 201–2, 204 peculatus (public theft), 201 rape, 204 repetundae (provincial extortion), 199–200 vis (violence), 69, 200–1 custody (of children), 182–3 damnum infectum , 149–50 damnum iniuria datum , see delict(s) deafness, 77, 91–2 defamation, see delict(s), iniuria

assemblies, 13–15, 18, 26, 196–7, 209–10 Augustus (emperor), 17–18, 69, 93, 156, 162, 185 bail, 79, 114, 237–8 bonae fidei , 125–6, 151, 212 bribery, 83–5 bureaucracy, 15–17, 19, 27, 49, 64–5 Caesar (Gaius Iulius Caesar), 17, 209–10 Christianity, 184–5 Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero), 2–4, 44–5, 47–8, 59–60, 82–3, 207–8, 210–11, 213, 228, 255 citizenship, 22–4, 64, 101, 103–4, 154, 174, 198, 215–24, 230, 238, 257 civil law, 2 cognitio , 118–19, 202–4 comedy, 43–4, 224, 231–2 commercium , 104, 217 common law, 2, 10, 115, 121 concubine, 180–1 contract(s), 29, 121–34, 176; see also bonae fidei ; stricti iuris consensual, 93, 104, 122–3, 125–32

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