Admiralty law
Admission (law)
Ancient Greek law
Andocides
Appellate court
Arbitration
Battle of Amphipolis
Byzantine law
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Civil code
Classical Greece
Commercial law
Common law
Comparative law
Consideration
Constitution of the Athenians
Contract
Creditor
Decree
Defendant
Demosthenes
Denunciation
Dokimasia
Due process
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Filing (legal)
Gaius (jurist)
Hellenica
Hellenistic period
Hesiod
Impossibility
Imprisonment
Inscriptiones Graecae
Interlocutory
Ipso facto
Isaeus
Isocrates
Jurisdiction
Juvenal
Law of the sea
Law of the United States
Legal doctrine
Legal history
Legal personality
Legal science
Legislation
Lysias
Magistrate
Metic
Miltiades
Modern Greek
Necessity
Original meaning
Phocion
Plaintiff
Plea
Polemarch
Police power (United States constitutional law)
Prerogative
Private law
Procedural law
Prosecutor
Reasonable person
Roman Law
Slavery
Special court
Statute of limitations
Sycophant
Treaty
Trial of Socrates
Tribunal
Trireme
Product details
- ISBN 9780691645919
- Weight: 510g
- Dimensions: 152 x 235mm
- Publication Date: 19 Apr 2016
- Publisher: Princeton University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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Athenian power and prosperity in the fourth century B.C. was based largely on commerce. The complex litigation arising from commercial activities was heard in special maritime courts, dikai emporikai, the subject of this monograph. Using both ancient and secondary sources, Edward E. Cohen has pieced together the evolution of these courts and has explored their procedure and jurisdiction. He successfully treats the much-discussed problem of why they were termed "monthly," and makes it clear that "supranationality" was a feature of all Hellenic maritime law. He shows conclusively that their jurisdiction was limited ratione rerum, not ratione personarum, because a legally defined "commercial class" did not exist in Athens at this time. Classicists and lawyers alike will find this a fascinating study. It not only contributes to our understanding of the Athens of Plato, Aristotle, and Demosthenes, but also points out that certain principles of Athenian maritime law are still imbedded in the modern international law of maritime commerce. Originally published in 1973.
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