Index

actio ad exhibendum, 213

actio de in rem verso, 203

actio de peculio, 194, 195, 201, 202, 204, 205

actio exercitoria, 193, 194, 201

actio institoria, 193, 194, 195, 200, 201, 202 actio quod iussu, 193, 201, 202

actio rationibus distrahendis, 183

actio rei uxoriae, 119

actio suspecti tutoris, 183

actio tributoria, 193, 194, 201-2, 204

actio tutelae, 183, 187, 188

actiones adiecticiae qualitatis, meaning of, 182, 193, 204

Afranius Dexter, death of, 63, 64, 66, 69 agency, impact on Roman commerce of, 177 Appuleia Varilia, adultery trial of, 54 Aristotle, Topica of, 34, 36

athletes, status of, 61

Babatha, archive of, 89

bankers, types of, 141

bounded rationality, meaning of, 179

castellum, meaning of, 215, 218 cautiones rei uxoriae, meaning of, 118-19 chirographum, 136, 138, 142, 143

Cicero, Topica of, 34, 36, 43, 46

cities, administrative responsibilities of, 77 cives sine suffragio, 115, 117, 120

Constitutio Antoniniana, effect of, 79-80 Contract, default rules in, 185 contractus mohatrae, 238

conubium, effect on inheritance of, 102 conubium, meaning of, 102 court-made law, importance of, 52

depositum irregulare, 238

diptychon, 127 disciplinary boundaries, drawbacks of, 13-14

edictal remedies, application in provinces

of, 82 epigamia, meaning of, 107

episteme, 35

epistula, role in legal transactions of, 142,

143, 144

expectation damages, 187

fiducia, meaning in Roman law of, 152, 153 Foedus Cassianum, 109, 110, 232—3 freedmen, as agents, 129 freedmen, loyalty of, 183

Gaius, Institutes of, 36

Gaius, trichotomy of, 36, 39

hypotheca generalis, 155

infamia, as a penalty for tutor, 183, 188 inserta et inclusa, meaning of, 217—18 intermarriage, prohibition of, 106 lucundus (L.

juristic knowledge, place in Roman intellectual life of, 10

jurists, linguistic knowledge of, 16

jurists, Methodenlehre of, 34

jurists, school controversies of, 40—1, 42, 43

Larius Macedo, murder of, 69 law and economics, 178, 179 legal anthropology, 90 legal science, meaning of, 31 lex commissoria, 152, 166 local elite, engagement with Roman law, 81

manus, meaning of, 125

Marcus Marcellus, murder of, 54—5 marriage, cum manu, 118 marriage, sine manu, 118, 119 matrimonium iustum, relation to conubium, 104 media sententia, 43 monasterion, meaning of, 154 mos maiorum, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 29 mutuum, 135, 136, 137, 142, 238, 239, 241

naturalis ratio, concept of, 42 New Institutional Economics, meaning of,

178, 179

nova species, meaning of, 43

Oratio Severi, 185

Pandectism, influence on study of Roman law of, 123

peculium, cessation of, 196 peculium, content of, 197—8 peculium, definition of, 194—5, 196 peculium, establishment of, 196 peculium, extent of master’s knowledge of,

196

peculium, free administration of, 195 peculium, time of estimate of, 199—200 Pedanius Secundus, case of, 53, 54, 60, 68 penus, meaning of, 20—1 pledge, Coptic practice, 168 praescriptio longi temporis, 171 Praetorian Edict, 44, 46 Proculians, 43 procurator, 144

rationes, account books, 139, 146 real security, forms in Byzantine law, 151 real security, forms in Roman law, 151 real security, in papyri, 151

Reliance Damages, 187 res corporalis, 38 rhetoric, as a skill, 31 rhetoric, relationship to law of, 32, 34 rhetoric, status doctrine in, 33, 48 Roman law, as a science, 31, 32, 34, 35, 36,

46

Roman law, as Roman cultural property, 11 Roman law, provincial application of, 82—3 Roman law, purpose in Western legal development of, 228

Roman law, relationship to legal theory of, 227-8

Roman law, relevance of, 228

Roman law, role in Roman economy of, 177

Romanisation, 83

ruta caesa, meaning of, 208, 209, 210, 211—12, 217, 219

Sabinians, 43 sale, fictitious, 164, 166, 167 sale, using emptio venditio, 209—10 sale, using mancipatio, 209 sale of property, factors considered in, 207 science, concept in Antiquity of, 31 Second Punic War, 115 senate, self-interest of, 52 slavery, Roman attitudes towards, 51 slaves, as agents, 181 slaves, fear of, 51, 61 Social War, 111, 117, 120 sorites, paradox of, 48 sources of law, Roman conception of, 75 sovereignty, attributes of, 76 sub eodem tecto, meaning in the SC Silanianum

of, 57 subjective rights, concept of, 40 suicide, as a ground for the SC Silanianum,

65

Sulpicii, archive of, 128 summum ius summa iniuria, 32, 33

tabulae, nature of, 127 Tacitus, Annales of, 53, 69 techne, 35

testatio, 136, 137, 138 theory of aspect, meaning of, 229 transaction costs, meaning of, 179 triptychon, 127, 135, 146 tutela mulieris, 124 tutors, types in Roman law, 180

universalism in law, concept in Roman

Empire of, 78

Vesuvius, eruption of, 126 virtues, philosophical, 73 vis maior, 127

water supply, in Roman houses, 214 wisdom, philosophical virtue of, 73 women, perceived levitas animi of, 133 women, status in Roman law of, 124

της αύτης οίκίας I²⁴ δτακετμένης έπί της αύτης Συήνης περί το νότινον μέρος τού Φρουρίου I²⁵ καί περί λαύραν τού αγίου άθλοφόρου Άπα Βίκτορος μάρτυρος I²⁶ έλθον είς έμέ το αύτο

ημισυ μέρος συμποσίου καί το τέταρτον μέρος I²⁷ άπο τού δώματος ούτως- τέταρτον μέν

μέρος άπο τού συμποσίου I²⁸ καί το ογδοον μέρος άπο κληρονομίας της μητρος μου Μαρίας, I²⁹ το δέ άλλο τέταρτον μέρος καί το Ογδοον μέρος άπο τών προδεδηλουμέ(νων) I³⁰ τόπων

³¹ Bronze or lead basins for developing a spring: Vitr., 8.1.4, with Hodge (1991), p. 27 (exam­ples from the Greek world, no metal reservoirs); Oleson (2000), p.