The Oxford Handbook of Roman Law and Society

includes index and biblioraphy

1. A word from the Editors......3 Framing law and society in the roman World .8 2. Reading Roman Law More than codes: Roman ways of ORganising and giving access to legal Information ...23 Epigraphy.......43 Juristic papyrology and roman law ......56 Roman law and latin literature ..70 3. The Constitutional Structure of the Roman State SPQR: Institute and Popular participation in the roman republic ....85 The emperor, the law and imperial administration .......98 Provincial administration .......111 Local Administration ........124 Collegia and their impact on the constitutional structure of the roman state .......................137 4. Legal Professionals and leal Culture Legal education and training of lawyers.151 Lawyers in administration .....164 Legal writing and legal reasoning.......176 Greek philosophy and calssical Roman Law : A brief overview .....188 Rhetoric and roman Law ........200 5. Setting disputes Civil actions and civil LProcedure Magistrates who made and Applied the law ...............219 Roman Courts and private arbitration ...........234 Republican civil procedure : Sanctioning reluctant defendants .........245 Imperial cognitio process ......257 Evidence and argument: the truth of Prestige and its performance ................270 Legal Pluralism in Practice ......283 Criminal law and social Order Police functions and public Order ........297 Public and private criminal Law .................310 Cromes against the individual : Violence and sexual crimes ................322 Crimes against the state ..............333 6. Persons before the law Social Status, Legal status and legal privilege ......349 Legally marginalised groups- the empire ........362 Repression, resistance and rebellion ......374 Slavery : Social Position and legal capacity .....386 Manumission ...402 women and patriarchy in roman law .....419 Defining gender ...........432 Women as legal actors.......443 7. Legal relations : Persons and family Family ...........461 Husband and wife.........473 Child and parent in Roman Law .......487 Inheritance ......498 Property The economic structure of Roman Property law ...513 Ownership and power in Roman Law ..524 Possession in Roman Law .....537 Possession and Provincial practice ........553 Obligations Obligatio in Roman Law and society ..569 Contracts, commerce and roman Society .....581 The scope and function of civil wrongs in Roman Society ........596 Economics Price setting and other attempts to control the economy ..609 Law, business ventures and trade ........621 Urban landlords and tenants ............635 Tenure of land and agricultural regulation .........646 Roman Law, Markets and Market Prices .............660