Józef inter gentes: On status and law between the centre and periphery

• Autorzy: Urbanik Jakub
• Języki publikacji: EN

Abstrakty

EN

Following the footsteps of Józef Mélèze Modrzejewski and reassessing his law-custom theory, the essay explores the principles of law-application under Roman law. Passages from Ps.-Menander’s Epideictic Treatises and Gregory the Miracle-Worker’s Eulogy of Origen are confronted with the selected papyrological evidence of apparent ‘conflict of laws’ faced by the Roman jurisdiction: the petition of Dionysia (P. Oxy. II 237), and a text concerning the testamentary freedom of the Egyptians (P. Oxy. XLII 3015), and finally with a fragment of a juridical work attributed to Volusius Maecianus (D. XIV 2.9 pr.). In conclusions, a new take of the problem is presented. I suggest the principle ordering the choice of competent law be lex posterior derogat legi priori. Thus, after the Roman conquest the old norms remained in force until expressively abrogated by a new Roman precept: be it in a form of a judicial decision (in line of the Roman magistrate-law making), or new imperial legislation.

Słowa kluczowe

EN

Constitutio Antoniania; consuetudo; usage; Reichsrecht; Volksrecht; Menander Rhetor; Dionysia; provincial law; conflict of laws

• Wydawca: Fundacja im. Rafała Taubenschlaga
• Czasopismo: The Journal of Juristic Papyrology
• Rocznik: 2019
• Numer: 49
• Strony: 289-345

Daty

wydano

2019

Twórcy

autor

Urbanik Jakub

• University of Warsaw Faculty of Law and Administration Chair of Roman Law and the Law of Antiquity Krakowskie Przedmieście 26/28 00-927 Warsaw Poland,

Identyfikatory

ISSN

0075-4277