A Companion to Ostrogothic Italy
148 Lafferty the king himself. Under this system there was a strict jurisdictional division between Goths and Romans. Cases invo ...
The Law 149 does not befit you to abide by foreign customs while living in the justice of Our time.5 For Theoderic, or rather in ...
150 Lafferty by an unknown group of Roman legal experts working under the authority of the quaestor in Ravenna.7 Its immediate p ...
The Law 151 We wish that before Us the Goths and Romans be judged by the same law; and there shall be no other difference betwee ...
152 Lafferty substantive or procedural rules developed by and native to another legal system. In its broadest form, reception ma ...
The Law 153 simple, perhaps customary, law which was not written down and which gov- erned everyday legal business in the wester ...
154 Lafferty abdication this imperial policy came to an abrupt end. Now the dams broke, especially after Constantine the Great, ...
The Law 155 the so-called leges barbarorum, a body of law that owed more to the traditions of Roman provincial practice than to ...
156 Lafferty What is interesting here, and inconsistent with the ancient institution of patria potestas, is the use of the term ...
The Law 157 loans and business transactions in a bid to facilitate economic growth (ET 134, 139, 149). This was also a world whe ...
158 Lafferty Over time the list of offences that constituted a crime grew to reflect chang- ing social attitudes. So, too, did t ...
The Law 159 a honestior could expect to be spared the more humiliating punishments dealt out to humiliores (e.g., ET 59, 64, 75, ...
160 Lafferty administrative significance as early as the Republic. As the imperial adminis- tration became more dependent on the ...
The Law 161 administration to protect property-holders against the open greed of others and to prevent the anarchy that would ha ...
162 Lafferty A significant challenge for the Ostrogothic administration was that the sup- ply of skilled judges and other magist ...
The Law 163 soldiers had to be heard, even if they were not necessarily illiterate Goths, were normally men who had spent all th ...
164 Lafferty misconduct.61 Scholars today tend to interpret these kinds of laws not as proof that there was necessarily more cor ...
The Law 165 that judges recognized the need to proceed “according to the law”, in those special circumstances where the interest ...
166 Lafferty of the Franks and the Vandals began to assert their autonomy and establish dominance in regions once united under O ...
The Law 167 and others were the result of changes in Italian society following the collapse of imperial authority and the arriva ...
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