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t h e notion of a «historical reconstruction of R o m a n law in which he has been co-operating, t h e a u t h o r a b a n d o n e d t h e . t r a d i t i o n a l t r e n d of presenting t h e histo-r y of R o m a n civil phisto-roceduhisto-re in t h histo-r e e p a histo-r t s . H e felt sufficiently justified t o deal w i t h cognitive procedure separately for t h e period of t h e Principáte and, sepa-r a t e l y , fosepa-r t h e pesepa-riod of absolute m o n a sepa-r c h y .
As f a r as his source m a t e r i a l is concerned, t h e a u t h o r t o o k into consideration inscriptions and p a p y r i only in so f a r as t h e y m a y be useful t o reconstructing R o m a n civil procedure. We are anxious t o call special a t t e n t i o n of readers of our Journal t o this m a t t e r .
[Warszawa] Henryk К upisze w ski
Мах К a s e r, Das romische Privatrecht. E r s t e r A b s c h n i t t : Das altromische, das vorklassische und klassische Recht. Zweite n e u b e a r b e i t e t e Auflage. p p . X X X
-{-833. С. H . Beck'sche Y e r l a g s b u c h h a n d l u n g . Munchen 1971.
T h e first edition of this book a p p e a r e d in 1955. R . T a u b e n s c h l a g (JJP 9/10 p. 484 f.) c o m m e n t e d on its high i m p o r t a n c e for juristic papyrology.
T h e second edition has been completely r e w r i t t e n . T a k e n into account h a v e been t h e yield of R o m a n i s t research accrued during t h e 16 years since t h e first edition was published. F r o m a meritorious point of view it seems ap-p r o ap-p r i a t e t o call a t t e n t i o n t o t h e following s u b j e c t - m a t t e r .
T h e a u t h o r is a d h e r e n t of t h e t r e n d assigning t o t h e works of classical jurisprudence, t r a n s m i t t e d b y t h e J u s t i n i a n compilation, a higher degree of a u t h e n t i c i t y t h a n used t o be t h e rule u p t o t h e n . H e proclaimed t h e theoretical vindication of his a t t i t u d e t o t e x t s of clasical scholars for t h e first t i m e a t t h e congress of Societa I t a l i a n a di Storia del Diritto, held a t Venice in 1967 (cf. Atti del Congresso Intern. La critica del testo, p. 291 ff.), a n d a f t e r w a r d s in his m o n o g r a p h : Zur Methodologie der romischen Rechtsquellenforschung (Wien 1972). H e restricts t h e range of interpolations a n d elaborations of t e x t s t o such he considers rationally justified. I n consequence t h e a u t h o r vindicates t o classical R o m a n law m a n y legal opinions, notions a n d p h e n o m e n a heretofore ascribed t o E a s t - R o m a n lawschools or t o J u s t i n i a n ' s compilers. H e also p a y s more at-t e n at-t i o n at-t o conat-troversies in opinions held b y jurisat-ts of at-t h e classical period.
