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Landlords and Tenants in Imperial Rome

Landlords and Tenants in Imperial Rome 388 THE AMERICAN JOURNAL OF COMPARATIVE LAW [Vol. 31 LEGAL HISTORY LANDLORDS AND TENANTS IN IMPERIAL ROME. By Bruce W. Frier. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1980. Pp. 251. Reviewed by Tony Honore* This is a fascinating contribution to Roman legal history that ha s implications for legal theory and comparative law. The author is a historian who, having studied some Roman and Common Law, looked for a topic which would enable him to relate Roman jurispru­ dence to its social and economic base. Eventually he hit on urban leases as the most suitable subject matter. The literary and archaeological sources, particularly for Rome and Ostia, are plenti­ ful, the social problems are important and were present to the minds of Romans in the principate, and the legal texts are not spe­ cially suspect. Consequently the terrain is promising. If the histor rian cannot explain the interrelation of jurists' law and its social substratu m here he probably cannot do so in any branch of law-reg­ ulated activity. The converse does not hold. The fact that the law of urba n lease can be placed in its context and evaluated from the point of view of the account it http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png American Journal of Comparative Law Oxford University Press

Landlords and Tenants in Imperial Rome

Honoré, Tony
American Journal of Comparative Law , Volume 31 (2) – Apr 1, 1983
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© 1983 by The American Association for the Comparative Study of Law, Inc.
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388 THE AMERICAN JOURNAL OF COMPARATIVE LAW [Vol. 31 LEGAL HISTORY LANDLORDS AND TENANTS IN IMPERIAL ROME. By Bruce W. Frier. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1980. Pp. 251. Reviewed by Tony Honore* This is a fascinating contribution to Roman legal history that ha s implications for legal theory and comparative law. The author is a historian who, having studied some Roman and Common Law, looked for a topic which would enable him to relate Roman jurispru­ dence to its social and economic base. Eventually he hit on urban leases as the most suitable subject matter. The literary and archaeological sources, particularly for Rome and Ostia, are plenti­ ful, the social problems are important and were present to the minds of Romans in the principate, and the legal texts are not spe­ cially suspect. Consequently the terrain is promising. If the histor rian cannot explain the interrelation of jurists' law and its social substratu m here he probably cannot do so in any branch of law-reg­ ulated activity. The converse does not hold. The fact that the law of urba n lease can be placed in its context and evaluated from the point of view of the account it

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