"Classical Roman Law", Fritz Schulz, Oxford 1951 : [recenzja]

SURVEY OF LITERATURE 1951- 1952 275 Fritz Schulz, Classical Roman Law. Oxford, At the

Claren-don Press 1951.

This b o o k — in c o n t r a s t t o m o s t m o d e r n t e x t books of R o m a n P r i v a t e L a w — is concerned only w i t h Classical L a w i. e. t h e pri-v a t e law of t h e period f r o m A u g u s t u s till Diocletian. I t aims t o declinate t h e b r o a d outlines of t h a t l a w ; t o describe t h e legal insti-t u insti-t i o n s a n d insti-t o r e n d e r insti-t h e m u n d e r s insti-t a n d a b l e as sociological pheno-m e n a . As t h e b o o k quotes t e x t s a n d sources s u p p l e pheno-m e n t e d w i t h full also w i t h papyrological bibliographies it will be not only for t h e r o m a n i s t s b u t also f o r t h e papyrologists of t h e highest impor-t a n c e .

M a x K ä s e r , Römische Rechtsgeschichte. Göttingen 1950. I n this t e x t - b o o k § 35 is d e v o t e d t o t h e n a t i o n a l laws. T h e a u t h o r emphasizes t h a t also a f t e r t h e C. A. in t h e f r o n t i e r districts of t h e R o m a n E m p i r e t h e r e was applied a law which d e v i a t e d in a con-siderable m a n n e r f r o m t h e law practised in t h e v e r y R o m e a n d it a p p e a r s t h a t t h e local laws of various n a t i o n s in t h e provinces o p e r a t e d s t r o n g l y even a f t e r t h e g r a n t of citizenship a n d t h a t t h e R o m a n law slowly gained g r o u n d in these provinces. This peculiar p h e n o m e n o n is chiefly observed in E g y p t . As t o t h e i m p o r t a n c e of t h e p a p y r i t h e reference is also given on p. 66, 144, 185. 11. T a u b e n s c h l a g , Introduction to the Law of the Papyri

(Archi-ves du droit o r i e n t a l vol. V I ) .

W o l f g a n g K u n k e l , Herkunft und soziale Stellung der rö-mischen Juristen ( F o r s c h u n g e n z u m r ö m i s c h e n R e c h t hg. v o n Max K ä s e r , H a n s Kreller u n d W o l f g a n g K u n k e l ) 1952. This s t u d y in R o m a n L a w is also for t h e p a p y r o l o g i s t s of high i n t e r e s t . Chiefly of a c c o u n t are t h e lists of j u r i s t s on p . 269/70 a n d t h e discussion on t h e activities of νομικοί a n d t h e R o m a n juris-p r u d e n c e in E g y juris-p t (juris-p. 355 f f ) . T h e a u t h o r establishes on t h e g r o u n d of a carefully collected m a t e r i a l t h a t in E g y p t d u r i n g t h e second a n d t h e t h i r d centuries A. D . a pair of h u m b l e lawyers professio-nally m a d e use of t h e i r k n o w l e d g e of t h e R o m a n law a n d t h a t a m o n g s t t h e suite of t h e g o v e r n o r t h e r e were R o m a n s learned in law. One can h a r d l y s p e a k of a n indigenous R o m a n provincial j u r i s p r u d e n c e . This is n o t r e m a r k a b l e because E g y p t , which u p t o t h e C. A. h a d only a v e r y small n u m b e r of R o m a n citizens in c o m p a r i s o n t o o t h e r