GAIUS, Roman Jurist

gāˈəs, gīˈ–, fl. 2d cent., Roman jurist. He is known for the Institutes (repr., 2 vol., 1967; Vol. I is a translation of the text, Vol. II consists of commentaries), a legal textbook that contributed materially to modern knowledge of early Roman law. It was much used in the compilation of the Corpus Juris Civilis.

See study by A. M. Honore (1962).

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A Casebook on Roman Family Law
Book by Bruce W. Frier, Thomas A. J. McGinn; Oxford University Press, 2004
Subjects: Domestic Relations (Roman Law)
...classical Roman law rests...Institutes of Gaius, an elementary...classical jurists that has...based on Gaius. Roman family law...interpreted by the jurists. The most...Institutiones of Gaius or Justinian...epitomes of juristic sources...comparison of Roman with Mosaic...
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An Introduction to Roman Law
Book by Barry Nicholas; Oxford University Press, 1996
Subjects: Roman Law
...period of Roman law. It is...surviving juristic literature...Institutes of Gaius. The Institutes...spite of the jurists liking for...is unknown (Gaius is only a...that he was a Roman citizen...abridgement of Gaius, accompanied...echo of the Roman law. The...vast mass of juristic literature...
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New Perspectives in the Roman Law of Property: Essays for Barry Nicholas
Book by Peter Goodwin Birks; Oxford University, 1989
Subjects: Nicholas, Barry, Property (Roman Law)
...authors prefer it, though the Roman jurists had a distinct preference for...bona could be said by the Roman jurists to be among my bona? Both...literature in general and in juristic writings. Gaius for one provides no exceptions...
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The Marriage of Roman Soldiers (13 B.C.-A.D. 235): Law and Family in the Imperial Army
Book by Sara Elise Phang; Brill, 2001
Subjects: Marriage (Roman Law), Soldiers--Rome--Family Relationships--History
...textbook Gaius Institutes...mes of juristic writings...survive from Roman Egypt (occasionally...committed theft (Gaius 3.196). Nevertheless...accepted by the Roman juri StS...the Roman jurists till around...suggests Roman jurists prejudice...27. s3 Gaius 4.182: Quibusdam...
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Roman Law in European History
Book by Peter Stein; Cambridge University Press, 1999
Subjects: Law--Europe--Roman Influences, Roman Law--History
...author was an obscure jurist, known simply as Gaius without the full Roman complement of three...1985; A. A. Schiller, Jurists Law, An American Experience in Roman Law , Gottingen 1971...The Institutes of Gaius , with trans. by W...
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The List of Nations in Acts 2: Roman Propaganda and the Lukan Response
Journal article by Gary Gilbert; Journal of Biblical Literature, Vol. 121, 2002
Subjects: Exegesis & hermeneutics, Geography, New Testament
...in the writings of Tertullian, the Roman jurist and Christian theologian, in his...astrological tables, various forms of Roman political propaganda commonly employed...often the case by force, into the Roman empire. These lists drew their inspiration...
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Not Before Homosexuality: The Materiality of the Cinaedus and the Roman Law Against Love Between Men
Journal article by Amy Richlin; Journal of the History of Sexuality, Vol. 3, 1993
Subjects: Sex Customs--History, Sexology
...and taking" under a Roman will ( testamentum...the Romans, and the jurists argued over whether...like that of all Roman law, was conservative...comment by learned jurists. For our purposes...100 B.C. 82 The Roman jurists seem to have seen...
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"For My Child, Onesimus": Paul and Domestic Power in Philemon
Journal article by Chris Frilingos; Journal of Biblical Literature, Vol. 119, 2000
Subjects: Families & family life, Letters, Metaphor, New Testament, Paul, Saint (5?-67? AD), Philemon (Christian of Colassae), Rhetoric, Roman civilization, Slavery
...innovation, indicates how highly Romans valued this promise of power. The second-century CE jurist Gaius states that potestas is a "right peculiar to Roman citizens, for there are virtually no other peoples who have such power over their children...
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Citizenship, Public and Private
Journal article by Karen Knop; Law and Contemporary Problems, Vol. 71, 2008
Subjects: Citizenship--Laws, regulations and rules, Conflict of laws--Evaluation, Foreign judgments--Laws, regulations and rules, Judgments, Foreign--Laws, regulations and rules
...legal citizenship attributed to the Roman jurist Gaius from that of political or republican...number of continental European jurists and judges preferred the distinction...1869, but he had to distinguish Roman law on the basis that its concept...
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Humanism and Scholasticism in Sixteenth- Century Academe. Five Student Orations from the University of Salamanca [*]
Journal article by Katherine Elliot Van Liere; Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 53, 2000
Subjects: College students--Addresses, essays, lectures, Orations--16th century, Renaissance--Social aspects, Salamanca, Spain--16th century
...D. diss. Valerius Flaccus, Gaius. 1958. Argonautica. Ed. John...Werken op zondag? Middeleeuwse juristen en werkverslaving." Madoc 8...1327-1400); prominent Bolognese jurist, author of commentaries on Code...D.), was declared emperor by Roman troops in Spain at the advanced...
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Who's the Biggest Who? ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), June 22, 2005
...decisive world battles? JURIST and historian Sir Edward...But 7,000 Romans under Gaius Claudius Nero (not the...hopes of domination. Roman expansion into Germany...lured the legions under Roman General Varus into a trap...commander of the western Roman empire, joined German...


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encyclopedia articles on: Gaius Roman Jurist  - 3 results

 
 
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Gaius , Roman Jurist
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
GAIUS , Roman jurist ga s, gi , fl. 2d cent., Roman jurist. He is known for the Institutes (repr., 2 vol., 1967...that contributed materially to modern knowledge of early Roman law. It was much used in the compilation of the Corpus...
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Papinian
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Theodosius II and Valentinian (426) reflects the Roman attitude toward him: five jurists (and the authors whom they quoted) were set up as the sole authorities to be cited Paulus, Gaius, Ulpian, Modestinus, and Papinian. If they were...
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Corpus Juris Civilis
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...general survey of the whole field of Roman law; the Digest or Pandects, by...selections from 39 noted classical jurists such as Gaius, Paulus, Ulpian, Modestinus, and...texts notably those of the great Roman jurist Gaius. With the revival of interest...


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