In this book, it is argued that twenty regulae in title D. 50.17 of Justinians 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 Ciceros 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.
Preface
1Introduction
1The Research Topic: The Use of topoi and theseis in Legal Argumentation
2Roman Law and Legal Science
3The Two Histories of Roman Law
4Romanist Research
5Our Research
2Ciceros Topica and Trebatius Testa
1Topos and Thesis
2Ciceros Topica
3Ciceros Topica and Aristotles Topike and Rhetorike
4Ciceros Topica and Roman Law
5Ciceros Topica and Trebatius Testa
3Quintus Mucius Scaevola pontifex: Jurist and Orator
1Scaevolas Advocacy in the causa Curiana
2The topos in maiore minus inest in D. 32.29.1
4D. 50.17 De diversis regulis iuris antiqui Introduction
5The status coniectura: The topos causa
1Ulpianus D. 50.17.13
2Ulpianus D. 50.17.31
3Ulpianus D. 50.17.35
4Paulus D. 50.17.167.1
5Paulus D. 50.17.180
6The status definitio: The topos e contraria
1Pomponius D. 50.17.7
2Paulus D. 50.17.10
3Paulus D. 50.17.29
4Modestinus D. 50.17.195
7The status definitio: The topos e consequentibus Scaevola D.
50.17.88
8The status definitio: The topos a repugnantibus
1Ulpianus D. 50.17.4
2Papinianus D. 50.17.74
3Papinianus D. 50.17.75
9The status qualitas: The topos comparatio
1Ulpianus D. 50.17.9
2Ulpianus D. 50.17.21
3Gaius D. 50.17.113
4Ulpianus D. 50.17.156.1
10The status qualitas: ambiguitas
1Pomponius D. 50.17.20
2Iulianus D. 50.17.64
3Marcellus D. 50.17.192.1
11Paulus D. 50.17.1 and the regula Catoniana
1Paulus D. 50.17.1.
2The regula Catoniana
3Primary Sources on the regula Catoniana
3.1The Five Texts in Title D. 34.7 De regula Catoniana
3.2The regula Catoniana Outside Title D. 34.7
3.3Texts Whose Wording Recalls the regula Catoniana
4The regula Catoniana as a Dubious thesis
5The regula Catoniana and D. 50.17.1
12Conclusion
1Ciceros Topica and Trebatius Testa (Chapter 2)
2Quintus Mucius Scaevola pontifex: Jurist and orator (Chapter 3)
3The regulae in D. 50.17 (Chapter 4)
4Coniectura (Chapter 5)
5Definitio (Chapters 68)
6Qualitas (Chapter 9)
7Ambiguitas (Chapter 10)
8D. 50.17.1 and the regula Catoniana (Chapter 11)
9So Long to a Paradigm?
Bibliography
Index
Olga Tellegen-Couperus, Ph.D. (1982), University of Amsterdam, is Associate Professor Emerita of Legal History at Tilburg Law School. She has published extensively on Roman law and rhetoric as found in the works of Cicero, Quintilian, and the classical Roman jurists.
Jan Willem Tellegen, Ph.D. (1982), University of Amsterdam, is Senior Lecturer Emeritus in Legal History at Utrecht Law School. He has published extensively on Roman law and rhetoric as found in the works of Cicero, Pliny the Younger, and the classical Roman jurists.
