Roman Law and Economics Volume II: Exchange, Ownership, and Disputes

The economic analysis of Roman law has enormous potential to illuminate the origins of Roman legal institutions in response to changes in the economic activities that they regulated. These two volumes combine approaches from legal history and economic history with methods borrowed from economics to...

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1. Verfasser:	Dari Mattiacci, Giuseppe ca. 20./21. Jh (VerfasserIn)
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Veröffentlicht:	Oxford Oxford University Press, Incorporated 2020
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Cover
Roman Law and Economics Volume II: Exchange, Ownership, and Disputes
Copyright
Preface
Contents
List of Figures
List of Tables
List of Contributors
List of Abbreviations
Chapter 12: Rome and the Economics of Ancient Law II
Part IV: Slavery and the Roman Economy
Chapter 13: Law, Slaves, and Markets in the Roman Imperial System
13.1. Law, Economy, and Power
13.2. The Slave System
13.3. Legal Thought
13.4. Personal Dependency and Economic Autonomy
13.5 A Dual Regime
13.6. Praetors and Slaves
13.7. Conclusion
References
Chapter 14: The Practice of Manumission through Negotiated Conditions in Imperial Rome
14.1. Introduction
14.2. Two Cases: Cronion and Calenus
14.3. The Frequency of Manumission
14.4. Economic Considerations for Manumission
14.5. Implications of Freedom Purchase: Agreements and Terms
14.6. Freedom Purchase Agreements and their Enforceability
14.7. The Peculium as a Freedom Fund
14.8. Establishing the Price of Freedom
14.9. Patrons and Freedmen
14.10. Conclusion
References
Part V: Credit
Chapter 15: Banking, Money-Lending, and Elite Financial Life in Rome
15.1. Social Practices of Gratuity and Generosity
15.2. The Beginnings of Banking in Rome and its Development (Fourth to First Centuries BC)
15.3. The Non-Romans and Financial Life
15.4. Law and Jurisprudence and the World of Finance
15.5. Productive Loans and Commercial Credit
15.6. Standards Imposed on Professional Bankers
References
Chapter 16: Secured Transactions in Classical Roman Law
16.1. Introduction
16.2. Roman Law and Economics
16.2.1. Economic Analysis of Roman Security Interests
16.2.2. Economic Functions of Security
16.2.2.1. Primary Function of Security: Risk Reduction
16.2.2.2. Monitoring, Bonding, and Moral Hazard
16.2.2.3. Depersonalizing Credit Relationships: Impersonal Exchange and Adverse Selection
16.2.2.4. Zero-Sum Game or Redistribution of Wealth to Secured Creditors?
16.3. Effectiveness of the Roman Law of Real Security
16.3.1. Priority and Certainty in Ranking
16.3.2. Creating Security
16.3.3. Comprehensiveness
16.3.4. Rights of Use
16.3.4.1. Hypotheca and Debtor's Right to Dispose
16.3.4.2. Multiple Pledges
16.3.4.3. Rights of Use for Creditor: Antichresis, Rehypothecation, and Assignment of the Secured Debt
16.3.5. Enforcing Security
16.4. Publicity
16.4.1. Publicity: Introduction
16.4.2. Registries Support Impersonal Exchange
16.4.3. Public Registers in the Roman Empire
16.4.3.1. Registration in the Roman Empire
16.4.4. Informal Publicity through Possession
16.4.4.1. No Protection of Bona Fide Third Parties
16.4.4.2. Usucapio and Possessory Interdicts
16.4.4.3. Occasional Protection against Lack of Ownership
16.4.4.4. Purchasers of Pledged Property
16.4.5. Transactional Practices Entailing Publicity
16.4.5.1. Introduction
16.4.5.2. Mancipatio
16.4.5.3. Documents
16.4.5.4. Handing-Over Deed of Sale
16.4.6. Reputation-Based Mechanisms and Criminal Liability
16.4.7. Late Antiquity: Publicly Executed Documents and gesta municipalia
16.4.8. Comparative Perspective
16.4.8.1. Registration
16.4.8.2. Protection of Bona Fide Secured Creditors
16.5. Concluding Observations
References
Part VI: Property
Chapter 17: Ancient Rome: Legal Foundations of the Growth of an Indispensable City
17.1. The Cityscape of Ancient Rome
17.1.1. Private Buildings and the Entrepreneurs Who Built and Owned Them
17.1.2. Density
17.1.3. Unpleasant Aspects of Life in Rome
17.2. Why Talented People moved to Rome, and how their presence there benefited outsiders
17.2.1. The Once Fashionable Conception of Rome as a Consumer City
17.2.2. The Agglomeration Efficiencies That Rome Generated
17.2.2.1. The Economic Theory of Cities
17.2.2.2. The Many Services That Rome Exported
17.2.3. Evidence That Rome Was a Magnet for Talent
17.3. Legal Rules Revealing Rome's Commitment to "Commercialization of the Soil
17.3.1. Norms and Laws Fostering the Alienability of Land
17.3.1.1. Broad Freedom of Testation
17.3.1.2. Legal Practices That Provided Title Assurance to Land Buyers
17.3.2. Legal Practices That Fostered the Leasing of Houses and Shops
17.4. The Active, but Cabined, Role of Government
17.4.1. Policies Addressing Negative Land Use Externalities
17.4.2. The Supply and Financing of Public Goods
17.4.3. Rome's Relative Resistance to Populist Policies
17.5. Conclusion
References
Chapter 18: Land Demarcation in Ancient Rome
18.1. Introduction
18.2. History of Land Demarcation in Ancient Rome
18.2.1. The Roman System of Centuriation
18.2.1.1. The Basic System
18.2.1.2. Orientation and Division
18.2.1.3. Allocation, Numbering, and Mapping
18.2.1.4. Agrimensores and Surveying
18.2.1.5. Boundaries
18.3. Economics of Land Demarcation System
18.3.1. Demarcation Basics: Parcel Shapes, Sizes, Alignment, and Topography
18.3.2. Initial Parcel Demarcation
18.3.2.1. Demarcation under Non-Roman Systems (MB)
18.3.2.2. Demarcation under the Roman System (RS)
18.3.3. Aggregation: Total Value and Land Markets
18.3.3.1. Total Value of the Land in a System
18.3.3.2. Net Value of the Roman System
18.3.3.3. Land Markets: Roman (RS) versus Non-Roman Demarcation (MB)
18.4. Empirical Analysis
18.4.1. Detailed Data on Centuria
18.4.2. Historical Information on Centuriation
18.4.2.1. Agrimensor Responsibilities and Skills
18.4.2.2. Optimal Alignment
18.4.2.3. Types of Land
18.4.2.4. Long-Term Effects and Path Dependence
18.5. Concluding Remarks
References
Chapter 19: The Institutions of Roman Markets
19.1. Introduction: The Institutions of Impresonal Exchange
19.2. Institutional Choice
19.3. Institutional Demand: Opportunities for Impersonal Exchange in the Roman Economy
19.3.1. An Extensive Market Economy
19.3.2. Discussion
19.4. Institutional Supply: Public Registries in Rome
19.4.1. Constraints on Property Registries in the Roman West
19.4.2. Discussion
19.5. Palliative Solutions in Property
19.5.1. Ceremonial Publicity: mancipatio
19.5.2. Evolution towards Privacy
19.5.3. Exercise of Possession as Access to Ownership: usucapio
19.5.4. Discussion
References
Ancient Sources
19.6. Palliative Solutions in Business
19.6.1. The Palliatives of Contractual Agency
19.6.2. Discussion
19.7. Effective Enforcement of Personal Obligations
19.7.1. Informal Norms and Formal Rules
19.7.2. Institutions Empowering Private Ordering
19.7.2.1. The Role of Judicial Forbearance in Enabling Self-Enforcement
19.7.2.2. The Role of Formalities with Respect to Household Membership
19.7.3. Discussion
19.8. Conclusion
Part VII: Dispute Resolution and Remedies
Chapter 20: One Step at a Time in Roman Law: How Roman Pleading Rules Shape the Substantive Structure of Private Law
20.1. The Roman Procedural System
20.2. The Uses of the Pleading System
20.2.1. Actions in personam and in rem
20.2.2. Actions ex delicto
20.2.2.1 Summing up the tort side
20.2.3. Actions ex contractu
Conclusion
References
Chapter 21: Private Prosecution and Enforcementin Roman Law
21.1. Introduction
21.2. The History
21.3. Private Law: Strong Sense
21.4. Private Enforcement of Contracts and Judgments: Sureties, Distraint, and Honor
21.5. Private Law: Weak Sense
21.6. Why?
21.7. Conclusion
References
Ancient References
Chapter 22: Deterrence of Wrongdoing in Ancient Law
22.1. "Wrongdoing" and Retribution
22.2. "Wrongdoing" and Deterrence
22.3. The Evolution of Individual Liability
22.4. The Commodification of Civil Liability
22.5. The Centralization of Criminal Liability
22.6. Conclusion
References
Chapter 23: Collective Responsibility
23.1. Introduction
23.2. Examples from Roman Law
23.3. Other Ancient Examples
23.4. Examples from Modern Law
23.5. Theoretical Analysis
23.6. Conclusion
Appendix: A Simple Model of Individual VS Group Punishment
References
Chapter 24: The Dual Origin of the Duty to Disclose in Roman Law
24.1 Introduction
24.2. Institutions and Remedies
24.2.1. Institutions
24.2.2. Remedies
24.3. Asymmetric Information and Symmetric Ignorance in Sale Contracts
24.3.1. A Simple Model
24.3.2. Transactions before the aediles
24.3.3. Transactions before the praetor
24.3.4. The Buyers' Choice of Market vs Private Transactions
24.4. Analysis
24.4.1. The Aedilician Remedies
24.4.2. The Praetorian Remedies
24.5. Forum Shopping
24.6. Conclusions
References
Index

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