Roman Law Terms with Letters K
K. Abbreviation for Kalumniator. See calumnia. Kalator. See calator.
Kalendae. The first day of a month. Kalendae usually were fixed as the date for the payment of debts and interest.
In the case of omission of the month whose Kalendae was set for payment (e.g., in a testament or stipulatio) the first day of the next month was understood. Omission of the year in a simple indication, such as “Kalendis Januaries ” the next January first was assumed unless the intention of the parties was apparent from other indications. January first was from 153 b.c., the day, on which the magistrates elected several months before entered. On the same day the annual edicts of the magistrates whose terms expired lost their validity and those of their successors entered in force.Kalendarium. A register of births in the form of a codex or a papyrus-roll where the declarations of birth were entered daily alongside the recording on the white board (album) ; see professiones liberorum.
Schulz, JRS 32 (1942) 88 and 33 (1943) 57; Montevecchi, Aeg 28 (1948) 151.
Kalendarium (calendarium). A debt-book of bankers and professional money-lenders in which they wrote the names of debtors and the sums and interest due. Municipalities had also their kalendarium, and a special official, curator kalendarii, was entrusted with the bookkeeping. There are some instances of the use of a kalendarium by private individuals.
Öhler, RE 10; Humbert, DS 1 (calendarium); De Ruggiero, DE 2 (calendarium) ; Kübler, ZSS 13 (1892) 156; R. Beigel, Rechnungswesen und Buchführung der Römer, 1904, 141.
Kyrillos. A famous professor in the law school of Beirut in the first half of the fifth century after Christ. Another jurist by the same name belongs to the epoch after Justinian's codification. He wrote a valuable index (summary) of Justinian's Digest.
Berger, RE Suppl. 7, 337.
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