Sullivan, William Peyton

The discovery of the fact

by Eidinow, Esther, Ando, Clifford, Sullivan, William Peyton, Lewis, David Martin, Cammack, Daniela, Cornu-Thénard, Nicolas, juriste), Giannella, Nicole Julia, Lanni, Adriaan M., Thévenin, Pierre, University of Chicago

fromLaw and society in the ancient world

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"The Discovery of the Fact draws on expertise from lawyers, historians of philosophy, and scholars of classical studies and ancient history, to take a very modern perspective on an underexplored but essential domain of ancient legal history. Everyone is familiar with courts as a…

This dissertation studies the circumstances under which explicit norms of evidentiary admissibility were adopted in twelfth- and thirteenth-century Roman-canon procedure. I demonstrate that norms of admissibility arose in two areas: the law of positions and the law of witnesses.…