Gaius meets Cicero : law and rhetoric in the school controversies / by Tessa G. Leesen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Leesen, Tessa G.

Series:

Legal history library ; v. 2.

Legal history library ; v. 2

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Roman law--History.

Roman law.

Proculus, Licinius.

Sabinus, Masurius.

Gaius.

Cicero, Marcus Tullius.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (372 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Leiden, The Netherlands ; Boston : Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Gaius Meets Cicero. Law and Rhetoric in the School Controversies sheds new light on a much debated issue in the field of Roman law, id est the so-called 'school controversies' between the Sabinians and the Proculians. Tessa Leesen rejects the general assumption in modern literature that the two schools each adhered to a fundamentally different theoretical conception of law. She argues that the 'school controversies' as described in Gaius' Institutiones arose in legal practice when the heads of the two schools were consulted by two conflicting parties and each gave opposing advice. In order to make their opinions persuasive, the jurists were in need of adequate arguments. For this purpose, they made use of rhetoric and of the argumentative theory of topoi as described in Cicero's Topica .

Contents:

Preliminary Material / T.G. Leesen

Introduction / T.G. Leesen

I. Male Puberty / T.G. Leesen

II. Res Mancipi / T.G. Leesen

III. Specificatio / T.G. Leesen

IV. Filius Praeteritus / T.G. Leesen

V. Legatum Per Vindicationem (1) / T.G. Leesen

VI. Legatum Per Vindicationem (2) / T.G. Leesen

VII. Legatum Per Praeceptionem / T.G. Leesen

VIII. Datio Tutoris / T.G. Leesen

IX. Regula Catoniana / T.G. Leesen

X. In Iure Cessio Hereditatis / T.G. Leesen

XI. Condicio Impossibilis / T.G. Leesen

XII. Stipulatio For A Third Person / T.G. Leesen

XIII. Literal Contract / T.G. Leesen

XIV. Emptio Venditio (1) / T.G. Leesen

XV. Emptio Venditio (2) / T.G. Leesen

XVI. Mandatum / T.G. Leesen

XVII. Servus Communis / T.G. Leesen

XVIII. Datio In Solutum / T.G. Leesen

XIX. Novatio / T.G. Leesen

XX. Actio Noxalis / T.G. Leesen

XXI. Noxae Deditio / T.G. Leesen

Conclusion / T.G. Leesen

Appendix 1. Pomp., D. 1.2.2.47–53: Text And Translation / T.G. Leesen

Appendix 2. The Leaders Of The Schools / T.G. Leesen

Appendix 3. The Sabinians And The Proculians: Topoi / T.G. Leesen

Bibliography / T.G. Leesen

Source Index / T.G. Leesen.

Notes:

Originally presented as the author's thesis (doctoral)--Universiteit van Tilburg, 2009.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-283-03954-0

9786613039545

90-04-18851-7

90-04-18774-X

OCLC:

707926487

Publisher Number:

10.1163/ej.9789004187740.i-358 DOI