Letting and Hiring in Roman Legal Thought: 27 Bce - 284 CE

1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-90-04-21959-5
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Latin, Band 340, 214 Seiten, Format (B × H): 1550 mm x 2350 mm, Gewicht: 475 g

Reihe: Mnemosyne, Supplements / Mnemosyne, Supplements, History and Archaeology of Classical Antiquity

Commerce in the Roman Empire of the first three centuries CE operated within a well-established legal framework provided by Roman law. This framework was the product of both legal theory and legal practice. Centuries of Praetorian modification of the ancient ius civile, augmented by conceptual legal thought provided by the Roman jurists had produced a body of law which permitted commerce to flourish and to expand. Central to this body of law was the contract of letting and hiring, one of the four named "consensual" contracts in Roman law. Building on the pioneering work undertaken by Fiori (1999) on Roman conceptual thought about letting and hiring, this books fills an important gap in the current scholarly literature on this contract and its place in Roman commerce.

Zielgruppe

All those interested in Roman law and its application in the Roman Empire. Scholars of ancient history, especially those interested in commerce and in the relationship between law and society in the Roman world.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Du Plessis, Paul

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Geschichte der klassischen Antike Römische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Wirtschaftsgeschichte
• Rechtswissenschaften Recht, Rechtswissenschaft Allgemein Rechtsgeschichte, Recht der Antike
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftsgeschichte

Über Autor(innen)

Du Plessis, Paul
Paul J. du Plessis, Ph.D. (2003) in Law, Erasmus University Rotterdam, is Senior Lecturer in Law at the University of Edinburgh. He has published extensively on Roman law.