SURVEY OF LITERATURE 1953—1955 519
inst t h e m the a u t h o r gives his own explanation relying on t h e t e x t s on t h e s u b j e c t . Accordingly γη έν άφέσει means t h e land, the revenues of which are t o be released b y t h e royal government and t h e cultivation of which is controlled b y t h e state. The land revenues were released if a f t e r h a v i n g delivered t h e harvested corn q u a n t i t y t o the village trashingfloor, t h e relative t a x e s b y keeping of a certain q u a n t i t y of t h e delivered corn were paid off. Μ. К a s e r , Wesen und Wirkungen der Detention in den antiken
Rechten (estr. dagli Atti del III Congresso di Diritto comparati-ve I 1953).
P a r t I V of t h i s s t u d y is dedicated to t h e Greek and the Greco-- E g y p t i a n law. T h e author comes t o t h e conclusion t h a t in the Greek sphere a terminological differentiation of between the de-tentio a n d t h e legally protected possessio was evidently missing. T h e words έχε iv and κατέχειν are used not only for every actual power b u t also for t h e p r o p e r t y in t h e Greek meaning of the word. The difference between νομή meaning possessio and κατοχή meaning detentio is f i r s t to be found under t h e influence of the R o m a n sour-ces in the B y z a n t i n e period and even t h e n it is n o t observed consis-t e n consis-t l y (cf. m y Law2 174).
G e r m a i n e R o u i l l a r d , La vie rurale dans VEmpire byzantine (Col-lège de F r a n c e , F o n d a t i o n Schlunberger pour le byzantinisme Paris 1953).
n o t seen.
R. T a u b e n s c h l a g , Rechtsverhältnisse an der Grenzmauer im Rech-te der Papyri (estr. dagli Studi in onore di U.E. Paoli [1955] 683—684) cf. Law2 242 ff.
O b l i g a t i o n s
J . M o d r z e j e w s k i , Additional Provisions in Private Legal Acts in Greco-Roman Egypt (JJP V I I — V I I I [1954] 211—229). H . J . W o l f f , Zur Geschichte der diligentia quam suis (Iura V I [1955]
152 ff.).
I n t h i s s t u d y t h e author deals w i t h Mert. 24 (200 A.D.) where in a p r i v a t e letter t h e diligentia quam suis is mentioned not as we
