490 JOURNAL OF JURISTIC PAPYROLOGY
H . J . W o l f f , Zum Recht der römischen Bürger Aegyptens (Annales de la Faculté de Droit d'Istanbul, No 4 — 5 [1955] p . 27—35). The a u t h o r investigates P. Philad. 11 (140 A.D.) where accor-ding t o his opinion t h e v e t e r a n C.A. Antisthius Numisianus claims t h e prohibition of donations b e t w e e n t h e consorts as decisive for t h e parties, Valens a n d Cronous, R o m a n citizens. However t h e parties m a k e use of local f o r m s t h e consequences of which there-fore t a k e also effect. The d o c u m e n t shows a complexity of R o m a n a n d local n o r m s a n d f o r m s a t t h e regulation of t h e legal relations between R o m a n citizens residing in E g y p t and belonging as f a r their ethnical origin is concerned, to t h e local population.
F . d e M a r t i n o , Storia delia costituzione romana I I ( P a r t e seconda) (Napoli, Ε . J o v e n e 1955).
I n t h i s i m p o r t a n t work, f o r papyrologists is interesting t h e au-t h o r ' s opinion (p. 328—9) in au-t h e dispuau-te referring au-to au-the applica-tion of t h e R o m a n law in t h e provinces a f t e r t h e C.A., s u p p o r t e d b y t h e v a s t e literature on t h e s u b j e c t .
F . W i e a c k e r , Vulgarismus und Klassizismur im Recht der Spät-antike (S. R. des Heid. Akad.d. Wiss. J h g . 1955, 3. Abh. [1953]).
I n this v e r y thorough a n d instructive s t u d y of importance for t h e papyrologist is the discussion on the r e l a t i o n between t h e local laws of t h e E a s t e r n p a r t of t h e E m p i r e and the R o m a n vulgar law. T h e local laws of t h e E a s t e r n p a r t of t h e E m p i r e com-prise t h e n o n - R o m a n material. Long before t h e post-classical period t h e Greek a n d oriental institutions being in force in the t e r r i t o r y of t h e E m p i r e of Alexander h a d o f t e n blended into a Greek koine of t h e p r i v a t e law. Refore this koine there existed a c o m m o n Greek law a n d c o m m o n oriental law. On t h e other h a n d t h e R o m a n vul-gar law is t h e one of t h e postclassical provincial practice, in con-t r a s con-t con-t o con-t h e greacon-t con-t h e o r y and moscon-tly in c o n con-t r a s con-t con-t o con-t h e lacon-ter legi-slation. I n t h e unclassical f e a t u r e s of this law p a r t i c i p a t e d t h e vulgarized elements of R o m a n law, t h e Hellenistic koine of t h e p r i v a t e law, t h e common Greek a n d again t h e c o m m o n oriental law.
E . S c h ö n b a u e r , Untersuchungen über die Rechtsentuicklung in der Kaiserzeit (JJP V I I — V I I I [1954] 107—148).
