{"title":"Text and Translation","authors":"N. Horsfall","doi":"10.1163/EJ.9789004183100.I-187.13","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/EJ.9789004183100.I-187.13","url":null,"abstract":"Broken by war and rejected by the fates, the leaders of the Danaans, as so many years had now slipped away, build a Horse, the size of a mountain - the craft is the goddess Pallas's - and weave cut fir into her sides. All the Greeks' hope and their confidence in the war they had begun always relied on Pallas' assistance. The princes Thessandrus and Sthenelus, and terrible Ulysses slipped down the rope they had lowered; so too did Acamas and Thoas and Neoptolemus grandson of Peleus, the pre-eminent Machaon and Menelaus and the architect of the trick himself, Epeius. The famous fifty bedchambers, a generous expectation of grandchildren, the doors standing proudly with the spoils of barbarian gold, have collapsed: where the fire has given out, the Greeks take hold.Keywords: Danaans; goddess Pallas; Greeks; Neoptolemus; Ulysses","PeriodicalId":338511,"journal":{"name":"Fundamina: a Journal of Legal History","volume":"43 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128301078","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"At the base of Rome's peculium economy","authors":"M. Silver","doi":"10.17159/2411-7870/2016/V22N1A5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17159/2411-7870/2016/V22N1A5","url":null,"abstract":"Why did Roman slaves have a peculium or purse? It has been suggested that the grant of a peculium was a clever arrangement, a trick actually, by means of which owners incentivised slaves to perform unsupervised labour. Upon this incentive base stands Rome's \"peculium economy\" in which diverse and far-flung business and other activities are performed by minimally supervised slaves. However, forcibly taken slaves (including born-slaves), the kind still taken for granted in the scholarly literature, would not be sufficiently incentivised by peculia. The \"peculium economy\" stands, however, because the slaves forming its base are slaves by contract/self-sellers. The peculium, the legal and other evidence suggests, is a contractual benefit desired by and typically made available to free individuals who volunteered for slavery. This is precisely how, for example, the \"peculium\" arose in the eighteenth century trade in \"indentured servants\" between England and North America. The paper explores this finding and develops its implications for Roman economic growth.","PeriodicalId":338511,"journal":{"name":"Fundamina: a Journal of Legal History","volume":"65 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130240214","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Pfandrecht und Niessbrauch - Mehrfachbestellung und Konvaleszenz beschränkter dinglicher Rechte im römischen, im gemeinen und im geltenden Recht","authors":"Peter Gröschler","doi":"10.1007/978-3-662-44989-9_3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-44989-9_3","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":338511,"journal":{"name":"Fundamina: a Journal of Legal History","volume":"49 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131911386","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Constitutional scapegoat : the dialectic between happiness and apartheid in South Africa","authors":"Saul Tourinho Leal","doi":"10.17159/2411-7870/2016/V22N21A7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17159/2411-7870/2016/V22N21A7","url":null,"abstract":"The consequences of South Africa's apartheid era are still visible in terms of their effects on the South African economy, and in terms of the racism which has eroded various human rights. Apartheid may be seen to be the result of arrogant and racially discriminant economic development by the white minority, which resulted in inequality and injustice. The implementation of public economic policies, where the end justifies the means, creates the opportunity to use scapegoats in order to justify economic injustices to the public.","PeriodicalId":338511,"journal":{"name":"Fundamina: a Journal of Legal History","volume":"34 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124484504","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Basil Edwards : a scholar, a mentor and a friend : 1932-2014 : obituary","authors":"Elsabe Schoeman","doi":"10.17159/2411-7870/2015/V21N1A12","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17159/2411-7870/2015/V21N1A12","url":null,"abstract":"With the passing of Professor AB Edwards, South Africa lost a great legal scholar. I lost a mentor and a friend.I first met Professor Edwards (as I continued to call him after his retirement) in 1984 when I was appointed as a research assistant in the then Department of Legal History, Comparative Law and Legal Philosophy. One of my first tasks was to assist in checking references for his work on Paulus Voet, which would later be published as The Selective Paulus Voet (Fundamina Editio Specialis, University of South Africa, 2007). During that time, I translated chapters from his PhD Thesis (University of Cape Town, 1984) from English into Afrikaans - a daunting task for a young research assistant, but giving me my first glimpse of the great scholar that he was. Two years later, I became a permanent member of the Department with Professor Edwards as its Head, and sometime later he became my doctoral supervisor. All in all, I had known him for thirty odd years, yet when I was approached to write this obituary, I realised at once how much and how little I knew about him.","PeriodicalId":338511,"journal":{"name":"Fundamina: a Journal of Legal History","volume":"29 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123881830","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Tamás Nótári Handling of Facts and Forensic Tactics in Cicero's Defence Speeches","authors":"Magdolna Sič","doi":"10.17159/2411-7870/2015/V21N2A13","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17159/2411-7870/2015/V21N2A13","url":null,"abstract":"In his monograph Tamas Notari intends to get closer to understanding the mechanism of operation of forensic impact by analysing ten texts (Pro Roscio Amerino, Pro Cluentio, Pro Murena, Pro Plancio, Pro Caelio, Pro Sestio, Pro Milone, Pro Marcello, Pro Ligario and Pro rege Deiotaro) of Cicero's life-work more profoundly from a legal and rhetorical view. Since they are oral pleadings and statements of defence, the order of procedure of penal adjudication in Cicero's age is first discussed. Thereafter the ten speeches are grouped according to the facts of the case that provide grounds for the charge, and the chronological order.","PeriodicalId":338511,"journal":{"name":"Fundamina: a Journal of Legal History","volume":"57 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126038773","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The life and times of Cape Advocate Dirk Gysbert Reitz : a biographical note","authors":"J. V. Niekerk","doi":"10.17159/2411-7870/2016/V22N2A8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17159/2411-7870/2016/V22N2A8","url":null,"abstract":"While trawling for material on the (Cape) Vice-Admiralty Court recently, I came across a reference to the following entry in the Tuesday 28 February 1854 number of the South African Commercial Advertiser and Cape Town Mail.","PeriodicalId":338511,"journal":{"name":"Fundamina: a Journal of Legal History","volume":"56 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121382365","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Denis O'Bryen : (nominally) second marshal of the vice-admiralty court of the Cape of Good Hope 1806-1832","authors":"J. V. Niekerk","doi":"10.17159/2411-7870/2015/V21N1A8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17159/2411-7870/2015/V21N1A8","url":null,"abstract":"Denis O'Bryen's appointment as marshal of the Vice-Admiralty Court at the Cape of Good Hope in 1806 resulted from his political activism in England during the preceding decades. It must be understood in the context of the system of colonial patent office appointments that operated at the time.","PeriodicalId":338511,"journal":{"name":"Fundamina: a Journal of Legal History","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130313391","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Rileggendo l'eginetico di isocrate","authors":"A. Maffi","doi":"10.17159/2411-7870/2015/V21N2A6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17159/2411-7870/2015/V21N2A6","url":null,"abstract":"Taking inspiration from the opinion of HJ Wolff, the article examines the reasons that move the adversary of the speaker to seek the annulment of Trasilochos's will. According to Wolff, the request would be in accordance with a law of Aegina analogous to the law of Solon declaring a will invalid if the testator were declared out of mind, having been accused of writing a will under the influence of a woman. But in the speech only the sister and the mother of Trasilochos are mentioned, and it was certainly not this kind of women that were considered by Solon or the supposed law of Aegina. According to the author of this article the court should rather decide whether the sisters of a brother who had died without descendants should be considered epikleroi or not. In the first case a woman who presents herself as a daughter of Trasilochos will be entitled to obtain at least half of the inheritance of her father, thus removing it from the speaker's wife.","PeriodicalId":338511,"journal":{"name":"Fundamina: a Journal of Legal History","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132695742","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Natural law : Voet's criticism of De Groot","authors":"HJ Erasmus","doi":"10.17159/2411-7870/2016/V22N1A3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17159/2411-7870/2016/V22N1A3","url":null,"abstract":"Hugo de Groot (1583-1645) is internationally known as the father of international law and also celebrated for his seminal work on the law of nature. The principal work of Johannes Voet (1647-1713) is his Commentarius ad Pandectas in which he expounds the modern law (the jus hodiernum) in the light of the Pandects of Roman law. In the first title of his Commentary, Voet briefly sets out his views on the foundations of natural law. He rejects the views of De Groot on this score as unacceptable. The purpose of this note is to trace the exposure of De Groot and Voet to the subtleties of the esoteric theological debates in Reformed (Calvinist) circles in seventeenth century Holland, and to highlight the theological background to their differing views on the source of the law of nature.","PeriodicalId":338511,"journal":{"name":"Fundamina: a Journal of Legal History","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134044873","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}