TY  - BOOK
AU  - Leesen,Tessa G.
AU  - Gaius.
TI  - Gaius meets Cicero: law and rhetoric in the school controversies 
T2  - Legal history library,
SN  - 9789004188518
AV  - KJA690 .L44 2010
U1  - 340.5/4 22
PY  - 2010///
CY  - Leiden, Boston
PB  - Martinus Nijhoff Publishers
KW  - Proculus, Licinius.
KW  - Sabinus, Masurius.
KW  - Gaius.
KW  - Cicero, Marcus Tullius.
KW  - Roman law
KW  - History
N1  - Includes bibliography (p. [339]-350) and index; Preliminary Material; T.G. Leesen --; Introduction; T.G. Leesen --; I. Male Puberty; T.G. Leesen --; II. Res Mancipi; T.G. Leesen --; III. Specificatio; T.G. Leesen --; IV. Filius Praeteritus; T.G. Leesen --; V. Legatum Per Vindicationem (1); T.G. Leesen --; VI. Legatum Per Vindicationem (2); T.G. Leesen --; VII. Legatum Per Praeceptionem; T.G. Leesen --; VIII. Datio Tutoris; T.G. Leesen --; IX. Regula Catoniana; T.G. Leesen --; X. In Iure Cessio Hereditatis; T.G. Leesen --; XI. Condicio Impossibilis; T.G. Leesen --; XII. Stipulatio For A Third Person; T.G. Leesen --; XIII. Literal Contract; T.G. Leesen --; XIV. Emptio Venditio (1); T.G. Leesen --; XV. Emptio Venditio (2); T.G. Leesen --; XVI. Mandatum; T.G. Leesen --; XVII. Servus Communis; T.G. Leesen --; XVIII. Datio In Solutum; T.G. Leesen --; XIX. Novatio; T.G. Leesen --; XX. Actio Noxalis; T.G. Leesen --; XXI. Noxae Deditio; T.G. Leesen --; Conclusion; T.G. Leesen --; Appendix 1. Pomp., D. 1.2.2.47–53: Text And Translation; T.G. Leesen --; Appendix 2. The Leaders Of The Schools; T.G. Leesen --; Appendix 3. The Sabinians And The Proculians: Topoi; T.G. Leesen --; Bibliography; T.G. Leesen --; Source Index; T.G. Leesen; Available to subscribing member institutions only
N2  - Gaius Meets Cicero. Law and Rhetoric in the School Controversies sheds new light on a much debated issue in the field of Roman law, id est the so-called 'school controversies' between the Sabinians and the Proculians. Tessa Leesen rejects the general assumption in modern literature that the two schools each adhered to a fundamentally different theoretical conception of law. She argues that the 'school controversies' as described in Gaius' Institutiones arose in legal practice when the heads of the two schools were consulted by two conflicting parties and each gave opposing advice. In order to make their opinions persuasive, the jurists were in need of adequate arguments. For this purpose, they made use of rhetoric and of the argumentative theory of topoi as described in Cicero's Topica
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/ej.9789004187740.i-358
ER  -