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The Official Manuals of Roman Law of the Eighth and Ninth Centuries

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 January 2009

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The two manuals here referred to are known respectively as the Ecloga and the Procheiros Nomos. They are distinguished from all others subsequently edited by private jurists or the Colleges of Notaries by the fact that they were issued throught the Imperial Chancery in the name and by the authority of the Sovrans. They begin like an English Act of Parliament, by a short title and a preamble in which the Emperors address their subjects in the first person plural, indicating the occasion and announcing the purpose of their new exposition of law. They use the kind of official Romaic Greek affected by the antigrapheis or official draftsmen of the period. The language is simple and direct and the student will have no difficulty in interpreting it when he has mastered the vocabulary.

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Copyright © Cambridge Law Journal and Contributors 1930

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References

1 A.D. 726.

2 Psalm Iviii, 1—2.

3 Proverbs xi, 1 and xx, 10.

4 Eeclesiastions vii.

5 Gospel according to St. John vii, 24.

6 Amos ii, 7.

7 Isaiah v, 23 and 24.

8 Amos ii, 6.

9 The student will find an admirable summary of all that has been written on the subject in a book recently published by the brilliant young jurist, the late Professor Aldo Albertoni of the University of Ferrara—Per una Esposizione del Diritto Bizantino con Riguardo all’ Italia; pub. 1927, Imola, Co-operativa Tip. Edit. P. Galeati, 5, viale Paolo Galeati.