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Postponed Business at Irni*
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 14 March 2012
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The Lex Irnitana is arguably the most important addition to the material for the study of Roman Law since the discovery of the text of Gaius' Institutes by Niebuhr in 1816. In terms of information about the working of the Roman legal system its importance far outstrips, for example, that of the new fragments of Gaius found in the 1920s and 1930s. In particular it gives us much fresh information on a topic about which we are really very badly informed, viz. the law of civil procedure during the classical period of Roman Law, say, during the first two centuries A.D. While one can debate whether the procedures at Irni were in all respects the same as at Rome, no-one who has studied the inscription can be in any doubt that in its essentials the Lex envisages that the institutions of Irni will use a system which is Roman in nature. So what we have is evidence which can be used to help reconstruct the procedure under the formulary system in the first century A.D.
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