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F r o m these examples t h e most i n t e r e s t i n g is t h a t in Lill. 29 I , 3 where b y t h e m e a n s of a legal f i c t i o n a slave is t r e a t e d as a f r e e m a n in order t o be sued in a law suit. N o t e w o r t h y are also t h e a u t h o r ' s r e m a r k s on t h e sale on credit (p. 230).
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J . M o d r z e j e w s k i , Les travaux de Raphael Taubenschlag (Sym-bolae R. Taubenschlag dedicatae = Eos 48, 1 [1956] 1—16).
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This excellent s u r v e y will be of high use f o r every papyrologist.
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Coptic Documents and a Survey of Coptic Legal Studies 1938—1956 (.Ztschr. f . vgl. R w . 60 [1957] 190—211).
T h e a u t h o r deals in this article w i t h t h e f u n d a m e n t a l S t e i n w e n t e r ' s m o n o g r a p h , Das Recht der koptischen Urkunden ( H a n d -b u c h der A l t e r t u m s w i s s e n s c h a f t , hgg. von M ü l l e r — O t t o — B e n g t s o n , X A b t . , 4 Teil, B d . 2 München 1955) a n d records a t greater l e n g t h t h a n S t e i n w e n t e r f o u n d space for, t h e c o n t r i b u t i o n s of the se-veral scholars in ihe Coptic legal field d u r i n g t h e years since t h e publication of t h e a u t h o r ' s Prolegomena, a n i n t r o d u c t i o n to t h e s t u d y of Coptic legal i n s t i t u t i o n s in 1938. N o t e w o r t h y are S c h i l -l e r ' s notes on t h e tfuestion posed b y S t e i n w e n t e r , w h e t h e r f u r t h e r s t u d y of Coptic t e x t s is j u s t i f i e d . As he p o i n t s out t h e f u r t -her s t u d y of Coptic d o c u m e n t s wili m a k e it possible t o distinguish t h e Hellenistic-Byzantine f r o m t h e n a t i v e E g y p t i a n substance of the L a w in t h e Arabic period.
W. M ü l l e r , Papyruskunde (Deutsche Akademie der Wissenschaften, Scariften der Sektion Altertumswissenschaft, H e f t 8; Berlin [1957], 87—93).
