SURVEY OF LITERATURE 1953—1955 521
T. S c h w a r z , Die Grundlage der condictio im klassischen römischen Recht (1952).
This w o r k is d e v o t e d t o t h e condictio in classical R o m a n law, t a k i n g as a s t a r t i n g p o i n t t h e condictio indebiti. A f t e r a discussion on t h e c o n c e p t i o n indebitum solutum a n d error a n d scientia t h e a u t h o r i n v e s t i g a t e s t h e conception ob rem datum a n d t h e t y p i c a l cases of condictio based on this conception, f i n a l l y t h e legal f o u n d a -t i o n of -t h e condic-tio in general. T h e w o r k will also in-teres-t -t h e pa-pyrologists w i t h r e g a r d t o t h e discoveries of p a p y r i containing legal f r a g m e n t s d e v o t e d t o t h e condictio (ef JJP V I , 269—70;
V I I — V I I I 292; m y Low2 38132).
C. P r é a u x , Note sur la vente à terme dans le droit de VEgypte gré-co-romaine (Antiquité Classique 24 [1945] 143).
n o t seen.
M a r i o T a l a m a n c a , Contributi allô studio delle vendite alVasta nel mondo classico (Atti délia Academia Nasionale dei Lincei [1954] Mtmorie. Classe di Scienze Morali, Storiche e Filologické, serie
V I I I , vol. V I , fasc. 2, 1954).
T h e t a s k of t h i s w o i k is to i n v e s t i g a t e some of t h e m o s t r e m a r -kable aspects of t h e sale a t auction in t h e classical a n t i q u i t y . I n t h e f i r s t p a r t t h e r e are studied t h e peculiarities of t h e a u c t i o n in t h e P t o l e m a i c b g y p t insofar as t h e y r e f e r t o t h e sale of i m m o -vables belonging on w h a t e v e r a c c o u n t t o t h e fisc, t o t h e lease of t a x , a n d p u b l i c works, t o t h e lease of l a n d belonging t o t h e Crown, t o t h e sale of t h e personal p r o p e r t y belonging t o an insolvent deb-t o r b y deb-t h e c o u r deb-t s .
T h e second p a r t , divided in t w o c h a p t e r s , is d e d i c a t e d t o t h e sales a t a u c t i o n (auctiones) in R o m a n l a w . T h e f i r s t c h a p t e r deals w i t h a u c t i o n in p r i v a t e law t r y i n g t o establish its origin a n d dog-m a t i c c o n s t r u c t i o n in t h e classical p e r i o d ; in t h e second c h a p t e r a r e t a k e n i n t o consideration t h e venditio sub corona a n d t h e Sectio bonorum which r e p r e s e n t t h e m o s t a n c i e n t f o r m s of t h e auction k n o w n in R o m e . T h e a u t h o r tries t h e n t o give a p i c t u r e of fiscal alienations i n t h e period of t h e P r i n c i p á t e t a k i n g i n t o consideration t h e a d m i n i s t r a t i v e p r a c t i c e i n t h e G r e c o - R o m a n E g y p t , as it ap-p e a r s in t h e law of t h e ap-p a ap-p y r i a n d t h e i m ap-p e r i a l c o n s t i t u t i o n s f r o m t h e
