caa a22 4500 388059583 CHVBK 20180307125116.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130s1998 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0068673500002145 doi S0068673500002145 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0068673500002145 Johnston David Christ's College, Cambridge Law and commercial life of Rome [Elektronische Daten] [David Johnston] Nearly thirty years ago, John Crook's well-known book Law and life of Rome provided what remains the most sustained and wide-ranging survey of the place of Roman law in Roman society. Chapter 7, ‘Commerce', begins with the observation that in Roman times trade and business were relatively insignificant compared with land. No doubt few would disagree. But in recent years historians have done much to illuminate such questions of economic history as patterns of trade and consumption. Certain other matters, however, remain comparatively obscure. The non-legal sources are sufficiently unhelpful that it becomes important to have regard to the messages contained in the legal sources; and in them there is sufficient material to allow us to consider how the law shaped or was shaped by commercial life. The particular questions on which this paper touches are the type of labour - free or slave, dependent or independent - which was employed in commerce; and the manner in which commercial businesses were organized during the principate. Copyright © The Author(s). Published online by Cambridge University Press 1998 Proceedings of the Cambridge Philological Society Cambridge University Press 43(1998), 53-65 0068-6735 43<53 1998 43 CCJ https://doi.org/10.1017/S0068673500002145 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0068673500002145 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Johnston David Christ's College, Cambridge NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Proceedings of the Cambridge Philological Society Cambridge University Press 43(1998), 53-65 0068-6735 43<53 1998 43 CCJ CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge