CLASSICS 2LW3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Twelve Tables, Roman Law, Private Law
4 Apr 2018
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What was the chief legislative assembly in republican rome: the concilium plebis, the comitia curiae, the concilium senatus, the comitia centuriata. How many centuries" were there in the comitia centuriata: 10, 100, 193, 287, 1000. Archaic roman legislation: passed by the comitia centuriata, later concilium plebis (after 287 bc, legislation concerned with public matters: powers and terms of magistrates; electoral processes, private law; civil procedures still largely a matter of unenacted law. Democratic vs aristocratic ideologies: athens: no specialization in courts/legal system, juror, jurist- someone who specializes in law. Democracy is suspicious of specialists: democratic commitment to equality under law (insonomia, rome: aristocratic society; poor defer to the rich in politics, law. Trusted with the enacting of law: monopoly of patrician class over legal knowledge and process. Who was given the authority to draft rome"s laws: a)the kings, the consuls, a board of ten romans, the senate, experts from greek polei.
