UNE NOTE SUR LES OUTILS JURIDIQUES ROMAINS DE L’ECHANGE ECONOMIQUE : CONTRATS, VALEURS ET CHOSES
UNE NOTE SUR LES OUTILS JURIDIQUES ROMAINS DE L’ECHANGE ECONOMIQUE : CONTRATS, VALEURS ET CHOSES

Summary/Abstract: Classical Roman law does not highlight a conceptual division of “economic law” or “commercial law.” However, operators of ius civile had proposed a homogeneous qualification of things around their monetary value and erected various contractual tools, thus providing a legal matrix for extremely conducive exchange to the development of secure transactional universe. And civil processes of objectification had also succeeded to preserve human characteristics of fundamental role in the Roman economy, it is the slavery. If the Romans had not created a separate category of economic or commercial law, it is not too much to say that their system, born from a high degree of reflection, derived from a coherent social worldview, ontologically contained the genesis of such a legal body, replacing each real thing with its pecuniary representation. In this sense, the rules thought by jurists of Rome fully integrate the history of techniques and the means through which was built the development in an abstract form posterior societies in economic terms.

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