Marcus Antistius Labeo

Marcus Antistius Labeo ( * ca 54 BC; † approx 10/11 AD) was a Roman jurist and contemporary of Emperor Augustus.

Life

Antistius Labeo was a son of the jurist Labeo Pacuvius Antistius and came from a Samnite family from southern Italy. Under Augustus it belonged to the senatorial opposition to the principate ( Suetonius, Augustus 54), but still could with the praetorship the second- highest office of the traditional political career in office reach ( Tacitus, Annals 3,75,1 ). Augustus offered him a Suffektkonsulat on which he refused ( Pompon. Dig. 1,2,2,2,47 ).

Antistius Labeo applies not only Ateius Capito as the most important representatives of early classical period of Roman law. While he held conservative views in public law, he suggested in private law at numerous innovations, but represented only selectively further -reaching reform proposals. In later jurists Labeo enjoyed great prestige and thus exerted a not inconsiderable influence on the legal history of the ancient world.

From among his students the proculianische law school emerged, which is named after its first major Proculus. Some researchers suspect that may Labeo himself has founded the school, which is not so far can be detected.

Works

From Labeos once extensive work that should have included more than 400 books, only a few fragments of subsequent citations of legal texts have survived. On tracks are known:

  • Libri de iure, pontificio ( ' books on the Pontifikalrecht ') in at least 15 books
  • At least 2 books a comprehensive commentary on the Twelve Tables,
  • Responsa ( "Reply" ), that legal opinions on specific cases,
  • Epistulae ( "Letters " ), presumably on legal questions submitted
  • Pithana ( " probabilities " ), despite the Greek title probably in Latin,
  • At least 20 books comments about individual edicts,
  • At least 40 books posteriora, so posthumously published works on various legal issues.
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