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Legal advocacy in the Roman world / J.A. Crook
1995445712Ithaca N.Y. : Cornell University Press 1995. 1st edition. Hardcover. Near fine cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight bright clean and strong. Physical description; vi 225 pages ; 24 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references pages 204-219 and index. Contents; I. The function of advocacy. 1. Advocacy and legal orders. 2. Rhetoric in modern discussions. 3. Advocacy in present-day courts. 4. Taking advocacy seriously -- II. Prior Greco-Roman questions. 1. For comparison: advocacy at Athens and in the Hellenistic world. 2. The two Roman legal professions. 3. The boundaries of the subject: the legal order broadly conceived -- III. Advocacy in the papyri: the under-exploited source -- Excursus: petitions and the 'Narratio' documents -- IV. Advocacy in the traditional material. 1. The uses of advocacy to client and advocate. 2. Usus iudiciorum the practice of the courts -- Excursus: 1. Terminology -- Excursus: 2. The advocate as 'representative' -- Excursus: 3. The controuersiae -- Excursus: 4. Quintilian -- V. The historical record. Subjects; Practice of law Roman law. Procedure Roman law. Justice Administration of Roman law. Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press hardcover
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