This book examines the activities of a broad array of police officers in Ptolemaic Egypt (323–30 BC) and argues that Ptolemaic police officials enjoyed great autonomy, providing assistance to even the lowest levels of society when crimes were committed Throughout the nearly 300 years of Ptolemaic rule, victims of crime in all areas of the Egyptian countryside called on local police officials to investigate crimes; hold trials; and arrest, question and sometimes even imprison wrongdoers Drawing on a large body of textual evidence for the cultural, social and economic interactions between state and citizen, John Bauschatz demonstrates that the police system was efficient, effective, and largely independent of central government controls No other law enforcement organization exhibiting such a degree of autonomy and flexibility appears in extant evidence from the rest of the Greco-Roman world

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Law and Enforcement in Ptolemaic Egypt

The legal context

Introduction 1. Egypt and the political economy of empire 2. The Apion archive: economic structure and estate accounts 3. Labour and administration: the evidence of the contractual papyri 4. Letters and petitions: social relations in the sixth-century Oxyrhynchite 5. The Apiones and their analogues 6. On the margins of magnate power: Dioscorus and Aphrodito 7. Landscapes of power: the great estate beyond Egypt 8. The historiography of the great estate 9. The great estate and the imperial authorities 10. The rise of the great estate 11. Economy and society in the age of Justinian Bibliography.

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Economy and society in the age of Justinian

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. Emphasising 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.

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Roman Law and the Legal World of the Romans

ENGLISH





“NEITHER LYE NOR ROMANCE”: NARRATIVITY 


IN THE OLD BAILEY SESSIONS PAPERS





CHARLES KINIAN COSNER, JR.





Dissertation under the direction of Professor John Halperin


	This study examines the ways in which the Old Bailey Sessions Papers operate as narrative and are given meaning through specific intertextual relationships with a variety of factual, fictional, and legal texts of the seventh and eighteenth centuries. The Sessions Papers are journalistic accounts of common felony trials (as set down and compiled by shorthand reporters), before there was any official report of such cases. The study shows ways in which the Sessions Papers can be read as literature and particular instances where legal reports are incorporated into literature itself.


	The Sessions Papers as “stories for sale” are situated in the context of what has been traditionally termed the rise of the eighteenth-century British novel. Specific literary texts and novels discussed in detail include John Bunyan’s The Life and Death of Mr. Badman (1680), Samuel Richardson’s Clarissa (1747-48), and Tobias Smollett’s The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle (1751). Specific relationships of these texts to contemporary Sessions Papers are explored.


	This study contains an extensive analysis of the Sessions Papers from July 1742 of the murder trial of James Annesley and Joseph Redding for the homicide of Thomas Egglestone. Contemporary press coverage and other popular accounts dealing with the inheritance claim of James Annesley are examined to explicate the expectations of contemporary readers of the Sessions Reports. The incorporation of the trial narrative into Tobias Smollett’s The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle indicates ways in which these legal texts were (mis)read by contemporary novelists.


	Through an examination of the ways in which factual legal reportage and literary discourse share tropes and rhetorical strategies, the traditional boundary between “fact” and “fiction” is shown to be both fluid and amorphous. By showing the provisionality of these basic narrative classifications, the study challenges traditional assumptions concerning the rise of the novel in Britain.

Neither Lye Nor Romance: Narrativity in the Old Bailey Sessions Papers

1. Introduction: Rome - A Historical Sketch I: THE ROMAN LEGAL SYSTEM 2. The Sources of Roman Law 3. Roman Litigation II: THE LAW OF PERSONS 4. Status, Slavery and Citizenship 5. The Roman Family III: THE LAW OF PROPERTY AND INHERITANCE 6. Interests in Property 7. Acquiring Ownership 8. Inheritance IV: THE LAW OF OBLIGATIONS 9. Contracts 10. Delicts V: ROMAN LAW AND THE EUROPEAN IUS COMMUNE 11. Roman Law and the European ius commune

J. A. Borkowski

Papers

Textbook on Roman Law