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The Origins of Justinian's Institutes 3.23.5

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 January 2009

Robin Evans-Jones
Robin Evans-Jones
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Faculty of Law, Aberdeen. I should like to thank my colleagues Professor Geoffrey MacCormack and Dr. Tom Pearce, and Professor Georg Wolf and Christian Emunds of the University of Freiburg, for their help.
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I Shall make some brief preliminary observations on Justinian's Institutes 3.23.5, then look at the history of sales of loca religiosa and the liber homo in classical and earlier Roman law, and then I shall return to the text cited. My purpose is to show how the examination of the origins of the text from Justinian's Institutes provides us with an insight into the development of classical and earlier law, how on this occasion the compilers interpreted their instructions to compile the Corpus Iuris Civilis and thereby also perhaps how the compilers viewed the past.

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The Cambridge Law Journal , Volume 53 , Issue 3 , November 1994 , pp. 473 - 479
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Copyright © Cambridge Law Journal and Contributors 1994

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References

1 This has been recognised since the analysis of Scialoja, V., “Due Interpretazioni in Materia di Servitii” (1889) 2 B.I.D.R. 165.Google Scholar See also esp. Stein, P.G., Fault in the Formation of Contract in Roman Law and Scots Law (Edinburgh 1958) 76;Google ScholarThomas, J.A.C., “The Sale of Res Extra Commercium” (1976) 29 C L P. 136.Google Scholar

2 See Buckland, W.W., The Roman Law of Slavery (Cambridge 1970), p. 427.Google Scholar

3 D.18.1.22 and 23.

4 It is not always accepted that the action regulated the relationship of buyer and seller; see, for example, Stein, op. cit. p. 68.

5 (1922) 43 Z.S.S. 543; see also Murga, J.L., “Una Actio in Factum de Ulpiano para la Venta de Sepulchros” (1974) 21 R.l.D.A. 299.Google Scholar

6 Levy, E., Privatstrafe und Schadensersatz im klassischen römischen Recht (Berlin 1915).Google Scholar

7 See the essays by Honore, T. and Nicholas, B. in Studies in the Roman Law of Sale ed.Daube, D.(Oxford 1959).Google Scholar

8 Op. cit. p. 75.