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This dissertation is devoted to P. Berl. Inv. 16. 976/977 published by S c h u b a r t in „Festschrift für Leopold Wenger" (vol. II) under the title „Actio condictitia et longi temporis praescriptio". With penetrating criticism the autor analyses the theories of S e i d l and his pupil D r R u d o l f R e g l e r , presented in a not printed dissertation „Gedanken zu Pap. Berl. Inv. 26.976/977" and develops his own hypothesis that the fragments deal with various praescriptiones temporariae. The author points out that this text is of topical importance for the question on the legal working of the local and provincial law after the C. A.
E. S e i d l . Studia et Documenta Historiae et Iuris X V (1949) p. 335 — 336.
S e i d 1 ' s X survey on legal papyrology contains very inte-resting remarks on Berl. Zill. №. 8 (663 A. D.). In this papyrus a colonus, convicted of a theft but not yet brought to punishment promises by a written oath to pay a fine in case of being tried for a new theft, besides παραδοΟήναι με τω ένδόξω πραιτω(ρίω) [κ(αί) ζημία ύποκ]εΐσθαι έπί VOJT ί ω πληγών and confirms all that by a
sti-pulât io. This would be impossible from the point of view of the
imperial law, but it is admissible under the ancient Egyptian law (cf. S e i d l , Einführung 50).
F. P r i n g s h e i m , A suggestion on P. Col. Inv. № 480 (Journal of jur. pap. Y. 115 ff).
A. F u k s , Notes on the archive of Nicanor (Journal of jur. pap. V 207 ff).
J . M o d r z e j e w s k i , The πρόσταγμα in the papyri (Journal of jur. pap. Y. 187 ff).
A. W i i r s t l e , Untersuchungen zu Cair. Zen. Ill 59. 355 (Journal of jur. pap. V 9 ff).
T. B. L. W e b s t e r , Note: Addendum to Rendel Harris Papyri
Na 56 (Journal of jur. pap. V 237).
A d o l f B e r g e r , In dubiis benigniora (D 50, 17, 56).
Con-siderazioni interpolazionistiche (Atti del Congr. int. di dir. rom.
