- Collection:
- Scholarly Works
- Title:
- Narrow, Rigid and Literal Interpretation in the Later Roman Republic
- Creator:
- Watson, Alan
- Date of Original:
- 1969-01-01
- Subject:
- University of Georgia. School of Law
Law--Study and teaching
University of Georgia--Faculty - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Clarke County, Athens, 33.96095, -83.37794
- Medium:
- articles
- Type:
- Text
- Format:
- application/pdf
- Description:
- Tijdschrift voor Rechtsgeschiedenis [Legal History Review], Vol. 37, No. 3 (1969), pp. 351-368
There is a widely held view that the jurists of the later Republic had a rather rigid approach to legal problems. the view appears in various forms. At its most extreme, as exemplified by Schulz, interpretation of statutes and private legal acts is condemned as inflexible and often miserably literal. A more moderate view contents itself with the assertion "that the 'veteres' were more dogmatical than the classical lawyers". Elsewhere I have sought to show that the extreme view is one-sided and that there are many instances of very wide interpretation. The present study will be devoted to a consideration of the evidence for narrow, rigid and literal interpretation in the later Republic.
Roman law -- Legal History - External Identifiers:
- Metadata URL:
- https://digitalcommons.law.uga.edu/fac_artchop/409
- Holding Institution:
- Alexander Campbell King Law Library
- Rights:
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