Roman Law and the Legal World of the Romans

by Andrew M. Riggsby

• ISBN13: 9780521687119
• ISBN10: 052168711X
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-06-14
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

In this book, Andrew Riggsby offers a survey of the main areas of Roman law, both substantive and procedural, and how the legal world interacted with the rest of Roman life. Emphasizing basic concepts, he recounts its historical development and focuses in particular on the later Republic and early centuries of the Roman Empire. The volume is designed as an introductory work, with brief chapters that will be accessible to college students with little knowledge of legal matters or Roman antiquity. The text is also free of technical language and Latin terminology. It can be used in courses on Roman law, Roman history, or comparative law, but it will also serve as a useful reference for more advanced students and scholars.

Author Biography

Andrew M. Riggsby is professor of classics and of art and art history at the University of Texas at Austin. He is the author of Crime and Community in Ciceronian Rome and Caesar in Gaul and Rome: War in Words, which received the Association of American Publishers Professional Scholarly Publishing Division Award for Excellence in Classics and Ancient History in 2006.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. 1
Roman History - The Brief Version	p. 11
Sources of Roman Law	p. 25
Sources for Roman Law	p. 35
The Legal Professions	p. 47
Legal Education	p. 57
Social Control	p. 67
Legal (In)equality	p. 77
Writing and the Law	p. 87
Status	p. 99
Civil Procedure	p. 111
Contracts	p. 121
Ownership and Possession	p. 135
Other Rights over Property	p. 143
Inheritance	p. 153
Women and Property	p. 165
Family Law	p. 173
Delict	p. 187
Crimes and Punishments	p. 195
Religious Law	p. 205
Law in the Provinces	p. 215
Conclusion	p. 229
Documents	p. 235
Glossary	p. 265
Further Reading	p. 275
Index	p. 281
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