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Cover 1 Half-title 3 Series-title 4 Title 5 Copyright 6 Dedication 7 Contents 9 Preface 11 CHAPTER 1 Introduction 13 I WHAT IS NOT IN THIS BOOK 13 II SOURCES OF LAW 14 1. The Twelve Tables 14 2. Ius 14 3. Statutes 15 4. Praetor and edict 15 5. Jurists 17 6. Emperor 20 III ROME AND THE PROVINCES 21 CHAPTER 2 Sources and methodology 24 I SOURCES INDEPENDENT OF JUSTINIAN 24 1. Legal writings 24 2. Codes 25 3. Epigraphic and other sources 25 II THE JUSTINIANIC SOURCES 26 1. The Institutes 26 2. The Digest 26 Loss of context and palingenesia 28 Interpolations 29 The detection of interpolations 31 Post-classical changes 33 3. Justinian’s Code 34 4. The Novels 36 III PROBLEMS IN USING LEGAL SOURCES 36 1. Are the legal cases reported in the Digest real or imaginary? 36 2. Bias towards legal problems 39 3. Cause or effect? 39 4. Legal evolution 40 5. Conclusions 40 CHAPTER 3 Family and inheritance 42 I THE FAMILY 42 1. Paternal power 42 2. Adoption 45 3. Marriage 45 4. Divorce 47 5. Tutors for those under age 49 6. Tutors for women 51 7. Guardians 53 II SLAVERY 54 1. Slaves 54 2. Freedmen (liberti) 56 III SUCCESSION 56 1. Wills 56 Content of wills 57 Legacies 58 2. Fideicommissa or trusts 5

Author

DAVID JOHNSTON

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