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Ε . S e i d l , Die Jurisprudenz der Statthalter Aegyptens in der Prin-zipatszeit (estr. da Studi in on. di U.E. Paoli, Firenze 1955). I n t h i s s t u d y t h e a u t h o r deals w i t h t h e question w h i c h were t h e m e t h o d s a d o p t e d b y t h e j u d g e s of E g y p t w h e n passing t h e i r s e n t e n c e s . H e reviews t h e t e x t s in t h e i r chronological order a f t e r t h e governors in whose n a m e s t h e p r e s e r v e d v e r d i c t s were p a s s e d . H e also r e m i n d s t h a t t h e v e r d i c t s were always issued b y a con-silium so t h a t t h e a u t h o r s h i p of a v e r d i c t could as well be ascri-b e d t o t h e governor himself as t o an a n o n y m o u s j u r i s t ascri-belonging t o his a t t e n d a n c e .
E . S e i d l , Zum juristischen Wortschatz der alten Aegypter (Festschr. F. Dornseiff [1953] 320—329).
I n E r m a n n - G r a p o w , The Egyptian Language is given a le-x i c o n a n d its vol. I V c o n t a i n s a collection of words following t h e i r m e a n i n g a n d p r a c t i c e . One column deals w i t h " l a w " , t h e o t h e r w i t h " e a r n i n g , p r o p r i e t y a n d l o s s " .
T h e a u t h o r reviews several legal t e r m s such as: agency, a d m i n i n i s t r a t o r , g u a r d i a n , ownership a n d possession, p u r c h a s e , e x p r e s -sions f o r g r a t u i t o u s deeds, corn-loan, lease, m a n d a t e , f u l f i l l m e n t of a c o n t r a c t , animllation of a c o n t r a c t , several t e r m s f r o m t h e sphere of t h e law of i n h e r i t a n c e , t h e l a w of m a t r i m o n y a n d t h e p e n a l l a w .
D . C o h e n , Schets van het notariaat in het oude Egypte (Ars n o t a r i a -t u s У) ( A m s -t e r d a m 1955).
T h e b o o k is divided i n t o f i v e p a r t s : I . t r e a t s of t h e h i s t o r y of E g y p t , I I . of acts, I I I . of t h e office of a n o t a r y and t h e n o t a r i a l a c t s , I V . of keeping a n d r e g i s t r a t i o n of t h e acts. T h e f i n a l p a r t Y gives e x a m p l e s of a c t s .
M. L o w e n s t e i n , Le notariat en Egypte selon les papyrus (Anuario de der. civ. I V [1951] 724 ff.).
n o t seen.
R . C a l d e r i n i , De interpretibus quaedam in papyris (Aegyptus X X X I I I (2) [1953] p. 341 ff.).
