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Autore |
Plessis Paul J. du |
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Letting and hiring in Roman legal thought [[electronic resource] ] : 27 BCE-284 CE / / by Paul J. du Plessis |
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Pubbl/distr/stampa |
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Leiden ; ; Boston, : Brill, 2012 |
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ISBN |
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1-280-49602-9 |
9786613591258 |
90-04-22945-0 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (230 p.) |
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Collana |
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Mnemosyne supplements ; ; v. 340 |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Contracts (Roman law) - History |
Property (Roman law) - History |
Letting of contracts |
Electronic books. |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Front Matter / Paul J. du Plessis -- Introduction / Paul J. du Plessis -- Letting and Hiring in Context / Paul J. du Plessis -- Letting and Hiring of Operae / Paul J. du Plessis -- Letting and Hiring of a Res / Paul J. du Plessis -- Conclusions / Paul J. du Plessis -- Bibliography / Paul J. du Plessis -- List of Texts Cited / Paul J. du Plessis -- Index / Paul J. du Plessis. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 |
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