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1 online resource (230 pages). |
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Mnemosyne. Supplements. History and archaeology of classical antiquity ; v. 340
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Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum. History and archaeology of classical antiquity.
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Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum ; v. 340.
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Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; List of Roman jurists cited; A Note on Translations; Introduction; Chapter One. Letting and Hiring in Context; 1. Terminology and History; 2. Structure; 3. The Contractual Process; 4. Litigation and the Contract of Letting and Hiring; Chapter Two. Letting and Hiring of Operae; 1. Introduction; 2. Letting and Hiring of Operae Which Involves the Transformation of the Property of One of the Contracting Parties; 2.1. Fullering and Tailoring; 2.2. Apprenticing; 2.3. Goldsmithing and Engraving; 2.4. Construction. |
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3. Letting and Hiring of Operae Which Involves the Movement of the Property of One of the Contracting Parties3.1. Carriage by Land; 3.2. Carriage by Water; 3.3. Carriage Where the Mode of Transport Cannot Be Determined; 4. Letting and Hiring of Operae Which Were Traditionally Classified As Artes Liberales; 4.1. Doctors; 4.2. Land-Surveyors and Architects; 4.3. Advocates; 4.4. School Teachers, Teachers of Civil Law and Philosophers; 5. Letting and Hiring of Other Operae for a Short Period of Time; 5.1. Named Operae; 5.2. Unspecified Operae; 6. Letting and Hiring of Operae and the Roman familia. |
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6.1. Operae of Freedmen6.2. Operae of Slaves; Chapter Three. Letting and Hiring of a Res; 1. Introduction; 2. Movable Property; 2.1. Storage Jars; 2.2. Scales; 2.3. Vehicles and Vessels; 2.4. Slaves and Animals; 3. Immovable Property; 3.1. Immovable Property in a Rural Setting; 3.2. Other Categories of Immovable Property in a Rural Setting; 3.3. Immovable Property in an Urban Setting; 3.4. Other Categories of Commercial Immovable Property; Chapter Four. Conclusions; Bibliography; List of Texts Cited; Index. |
| Summary |
This book is a fundamental reassessment of one of the most important commercial contracts in Roman law. By drawing on legal and non-legal source material, this book seeks to assess the development of the contract in light of Roman legal thought. |
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Contracts (Roman law) -- History.
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Contracts (Roman law) |
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History. |
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Property (Roman law) -- History.
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Property (Roman law) |
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Letting of contracts.
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Letting of contracts. |
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Electronic books.
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History.
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Electronic books.
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Print version: Du Plessis, Paul. Letting and Hiring in Roman Legal Thought: 27 BCE - 284 CE. Leiden : BRILL, ©2012 9789004219595 |
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9789004229457 (electronic book) |
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9004229450 (electronic book) |
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