LA FONTAINE DE BANDUSIA : DROIT, SOLUTIONS JUDICIAIRES ET JUSTICE PRÉTORIENNES
THE FOUNTAIN OF BANDUSIA: LAW, JUDICIAL SOLUTIONS AND PRATORIAN JUSTICE

Summary/Abstract: Like the clear water of the Fountain of Bandusia, praetorian law permeated the Roman legal landscape, nurturing principles of justice, equity, and pragmatism that continue to influence modern legal systems. Is this destiny? At first, no one could believe that an innocuous village, full of mosquitoes, on the banks of the Tiber, a military observation point for the Latins of Latium, a hub of espionage, devoid of female presence, a masculinist-militarist place (hence, the famous abduction of the Sabine women), in the shadow of a great ancient civilization, that of intelligent and highly emancipated Etruscans, could give the World an eternal right. Its capacity to adapt, rectify, and fill the gaps in civil law makes it a timeless model of legal flexibility and creativity.

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