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Leg. Gort. I. 35–55
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 11 February 2009
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Seizure before trial is forbidden in an impending dispute about a free man or slave. But if a claimant anticipates judgement he is to be fined ten staters for seizing a free man, five for a slave, and he is ordered to release the seized person within three days (1. 1–7).
If this order for release is not obeyed, the offending party incurs another fine of a stater for a free man, a drachma for a slave, for each day until the order is obeyed, the judge deciding on oath about the time involved. If this offence is denied, the judge is to decide on oath, where there is no witness (ib 7–14).
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page 59 note 1 There was a deterrent in practice, because a person condemned for debt could be seized with impunity: see below, I. 55–2. 1–2. But is it likely that this right was freely exercised against all and sundry?
page 59 note 2 Ibid., p. 324.
page 60 note 1 Cf. the comment on 11. 32 ff. in Inscr. Jur. Gr. 1. 479: ‘Cette disposition, analogue, sauf l'écriture, à notre bénéfice d'inventaire, est conçue en termes très gééiaux et montre qu'à Gortyne il n'y avait pas, comme dans la Rome primitive, d' héitiers nécessaires tenus ultra vires.’Google Scholar
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