Social Status and Legal Privilege in the Roman Empire

✍ Scribed by Peter Garnsey

Publisher: Clarendon Press
Year: 1970
Tongue: English
Leaves: 168
Category: Library

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✦ Table of Contents

LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS xi
INTRODUCTION 1
PART I. COURTS
Introduction 13
1. The senatorial court under the Julio-Claudians 17
2. The senatorial court from the Flavians to the Severans 43
3. Emperor, governors, and delegated jurisdiction 65
Conclusion 99

PART II. THE DUAL-PENALTY SYSTEM
4. Penalties and the treatment of the accused 103
5. Hadrian and the evolution of the dual-penalty system 153
6. The legal basis of the dual-penalty system 173

PART III. THE CIVIL SUIT
7. The praetor 181
8. The judge 207

PART IV. THE HONESTIORES
9. The vocabulary of privilege 221
10. Privileged groups 234
11. Citizens and honestiores 260
12. Differences in rank and the value of legal privilege 272
Conclusion 277
BIBLIOGRAPHY 281
INDEXES 289

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