АНТИЧНОТО МЕЖДУНАРОДНО ТЪРГОВСКО ПРАВО И РИМСКОТО БАНКОВО ПРАВО ПРЕЗ III В.– I В. ПР.ХР.
INTERNATIONAL COMMERCIAL LAW IN THE ANTIQUITY AND ROMAN BANKING LAW IN PERIOD III-I CENTURY BC

Summary/Abstract: The article presented begins with a new analysis of the concept of Commercial law and its development from the Antiquity until modern times. After outlining the different stages of its development throughout the centuries, the author defends his understanding that Commercial law did in fact exist within the Roman legal system, albeit only to an extent and within a certain time frame. The article then continues with a legal analysis of the bankers and their activity in the Eastern and Central Mediterranean in the period III-I c. BC. It includes a detailed overview of the different kinds of banking operations that we have information about – moneylending, deposits, financial agency during auctions, accounting etc. Specific attention is given to the organizational models of exersitio mensae. In the end of the article the author makes two primary conclusions about this topic – first, that there used to be a primary „core" of rules, regulating the banking activity in particular and that these rules can be considered to be an early form of Banking law; and second, that this „Banking law" was deeply connected to the rules, regulating the commercial activities and the sea traffic.

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