The 'Regula' as a Rhetorical Device in Roman Law

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The 'Regula' as a Rhetorical Device in Roman Law

Edited by Olga Tellegen-Couperus · Jan Willem Tellegen
Brill Nijhoff November 2024

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ISBN-13
9789004711013
Publisher
Brill Nijhoff
Publication
November 2024
Format
Hardback
Jurisdiction
Netherlands ? Countri(es) for reference only

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In this book, it is argued that twenty regulae in title D. 50.17 of Justinian’s Digest are not the legal rules that scholarly wisdom has long held them to be, but are instead rhetorical arguments. As arguments, these regulae do not comfortably fit the modern perception of Roman law as a system and sometimes even appear to have no connection with law whatsoever. By explaining them in the context of rhetoric, and of Cicero’s Topica especially, the authors identify and reconstruct the original tenor of these twenty regulae as well as that of the famous regula Catoniana, stating their case for a paradigm shift in the study of Roman law in the process.

Table of Contents

Preface

1. Introduction
2. Cicero’s Topica and Trebatius Testa
3. Quintus Mucius Scaevola pontifex: Jurist and Orator
4. D.
50.17 De diversis regulis iuris antiqui – Introduction
5. The status coniectura: The topos causa
6. The status definitio: The topos e contraria
7. The status definitio: The topos e consequentibus – Scaevola D.
50.17.88
8. The status definitio: The topos a repugnantibus
9. The status qualitas: The topos comparatio
10. The status qualitas: ambiguitas
11. Paulus D.
50.17.1 and the regula Catoniana
12. Conclusion

Bibliography
Index
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