"Zwei lateinische Papyri zum römischen Eherechte", L. Wenger, "Ak. d. Wiss. Wien phil. hist. Kl.", 219 Bd., 1 Abh., 1941 ; "Nachträgliche Bemerkungen zu 'Zwei lateinische Papyri zum römischen Eherechte'", L. Wenger, "Anzeiger der phil. hist. Kl. d. Akad.

Rafał Taubenschlag

"Zwei lateinische Papyri zum

römischen Eherechte", L. Wenger,

"Ak. d. Wiss. Wien phil. hist. Kl.", 219

Bd., 1 Abh., 1941 ; "Nachträgliche

Bemerkungen zu ’Zwei lateinische

Papyri zum römischen Eherechte’",

L. Wenger, "Anzeiger der phil. hist.

Kl. d. Akad. Wiss. Wien", 1945 :

[recenzja]

The Journal of Juristic Papyrology 3, 163-164

SURVEY OF LITERATURE 1 9 4 5 - 1 9 4 9 ₁₆₃

I n P a r e r g o n I p. 1—7 u n d e r t h e title Sul P. Lips. Inv. N° 136 t h e a u t h o r gives a new l e c t u r e of this p a p y r u s . I n P a r e r g o n I I p. 7—10 Sul P. Oxy. V I I I , 1114*3 t h e a u t h o r gives a new lecture of v. 9 ff: prof[iteor obvenisse] (instead of adnuisse) filiabus meis...

h[er]editatem seu bonorum possessionem... matris earum. I n P a r e r

-gon I Y p. 18 ff II p. Oxy X 1264 e Γ ευ~αιδεία t h e a u t h o r asserts t h a t t h e l e c t u r e : τα δπόντα (?) της ευναιδείας (?) δίκαια (instead of t h a t corrected b y t h e e d i t o r s : ευ~αιδείας) is r i g h t ; in order n o t t o r e p e a t t h e t e r m ασυλία t h e w r i t e r h a d t o t a k e r e f u g e t o a n o t h e r s y n o n y m ατέλεια or άλειτουργία ( ? ) or αδεία. If t h e r e f o r e he m a d e use of a s t r a n g e t e r m εοναίδεια, it m e a n s t h a t this t e r m s o u n d e d in his years, rightly or wrongly as a s y n o n y m of ασυλία. P a r e r g o n V p. 24 ff Sul P. Michigan inv. 4703 where rejecting t h e h y p o t h e -ses of S a n d e r s a n d W e n g e r , he a f f i r m s t h a t t h e p a p y r u s deals with t h e r e s t i t u t i o n of t h e dos giving t h e title of t h e d o c u m e n t as

Conventi.o de dote post solutum matrimonium. H e supposes t h a t t h e

divorce was a f i c t i t i o u s one a n d p. 38 that we can consider the

document in question as a fiction intended to regulate for the time being in a friendly way the economic situation of the parties and to avoid in the future the rejection of the pretensions of the widow and the orphans, a rejection the severity of ivhich we noticed in the P. Cattavi. P a r e r g o n V I A proposito del P. Hamb. 70 (p. 39—55): R e j e c t i n g t h e i n t e r p r e t a t i o n given t o t h e d o c u m e n t b y

S o l a z z i t h a t t h e legacy could n o t be disposed of otherwise t h a n

per damnationem t h e a u t h o r asserts, t h a t t h e r e is no h i n d r a n c e

t o a d o p t t h e f o r m per vindicationem. H e rejects also S o l a z z i ' s i n t e r p r e t a t i o n t h a t in case of a legacy per damnationem t h e παρα-χώρησις could n o t be p e r f o r m e d w i t h t h e auctoritas of t h e contutor S a r a p i o n only (p. 40, 48).

L. W E N G E R , Zwei lateinische Papyri zum römischen Eherechte

(Ak. d. IViss. Wien phil. hist. Kl. 219 B d . 1 A b h . 1941).

L. W E N G E R , Nachträgliche Bemerkungen zu „Zwei lateinische

Pa-pyri zum römischen Eherechte" (S. A. aus d e m Anzeiger der phil. hist. Kl. d. Akad. Wiss. Wien, v o n 12 Dez. J h g . 1945 № V I - X I ) .

T h e f i r s t essay deals w i t h P . Mich. I n v . № 508 + 2217. T h e p a r t i e s are R o m a n s a n d t h e r e is no d o u b t , t h a t t h e d o c u m e n t concerns t h e a t t e s t a t i o n of a justum matrimonium. T h e f a t h e r gi-ves her d a u g h t e r , u n d e r his patria potestas, in m a r r i a g e secundum

164

legem Iuliaih de maritandis ordinibus. — The second essay deals

with Mich. Inv. № 4703. W e n g e r considers this document not

as a contract of marriage, but as a costitution of a dowry, after the

conclusion of the marriage ( d i c t i o dotis). In Nachträgliche

Bemer-kungen, ths first remarks concern P. Mich. Inv. 508 + 2217.

Wen-ger adheres to the opinion of V i s s c h e r that the transaction in

these papyri constitutes a donatio ante nuptias in dotem redacta.

In the following remarks W e n g e r maintains against S a n d e r s ,

C l a i r e P r é a u x and A r a n g i o - R u i z that Mich. Inv. № 4703

refers to dictio dotis. A separate chapter is devoted to the

mar-riage of soldiers with reference to the dissertations of M e n k m a n

and N a r d i . W e n g e r points out that the papyri don't allow to

give a precise answer to the question whether such marriages are

null and void or only forbidden.

A. CHRISTOPHILOPOULOS, Zu P. Nessana Inv. № 14 (Sav. Z.

LXV (1947), 352 ff).

The author asserts that the papyrus treats with a divorce by

mutual consent as admitted by Nov. 140 of Justin II. The wife

obtains the consent of her husband due to a renunciation of her

claims concerning the restitution of her dowry. This interpretation

is supported by the denomination of the act as οιάλυσ'.ς. The

pro-visions therein follow the prescriptions of the Roman legislation

adopted by the Greek church.

LAW OF PROPERTY

A. J . WOLFF, Conveyance of Land in Greco-Roman Egypt (in

Ju-ridical Review LVII (1945), 1 6 2 - 1 8 1 ) .

A. J . WOLFF, Registration of Conveyances in Ptolemaic Egypt

(Aegyptus XXVIII, fasc. 1 - 2 (1948) pp 1 7 - 9 6 ) .

In the first dissertation the autor asserts that the Ptolemaic

καταγραφή is a certificate issued by the agoranomes in testimony

of the fact that they have entered the sale in their register; it

rea-lized in a more primitive form the main idea underlying the

bi-bliotheke enkteseon of the imperial period. The certificate took the

place of the epistalma by which under the new system the official of

the bibliotheke authorized as notary to draw up a deed of

convey-ance. In the Roman period the •/.αταγριαφή-certificate has been

repla-ced by the notarial sale, homologia, which is now called katagraphe.