Institute for the Classical Tradition
ANRW II.13, pp. 103-233
 
The 'Leges iudiciorum publicorum' and their Interpretation in the Republic, Principate and Later Empire
by Richard Alexander Bauman, Sydney

Contents

Part One
I. The Republic

1. Definition and scope

106

2. The efficacy of criminal interpretation

110

3. Status theory and the interpretation of statutes

112

4. Interpretation and the form of the criminal lex

116

5. Interpretation and the adversus rem publicam declaration

124
II. The Principate: Jurists and Senate

1. The classical jurists

126

2. Forms of interpretation

131

3. Voluntas and analogy

133

4. Labeo and analogy

142

5. The classical jurists and status theory

144

6. The senate and the leges iudiciorurn publicorum

145
Part Two
I. Introduction 153
II. Interpretation by the Emperor: The Principate

1. Edicta

159

2. Decreta

163

3. Rescripta: Tiberius to Antoninus Pius

166

4. Rescripta and humanitas: Marcus to Severus Alexander

173
III. Interpretation by the Emperor: The Later Empire

1. The problem of rhetoric

180

2. Rhetoric, humanitas and maiestas

182

3. Humanitas and interpretation: General considerations

189

4. Humanitas and interpretation: The lex Julia maiestatis

201

5. Humanitas and interpretation: The lex Julia de adulteriis

212

6. The compilers and interpretation

218
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