Lucius Neratius Priscus (suffect consul 97)

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Lucius Neratius Priscus († after 133 AD) was a Roman lawyer and politician.

Origin, family and career

Lucius Neratius Priscus came from Saepinum and belonged to a senatorial family that gained political influence in the 1st and 2nd centuries AD and was elevated to the patrician status by Emperor Vespasian . His brother was Lucius Neratius Marcellus , who was a suffect consul in AD 95 and an ordinary consul in 129. His father was perhaps Marcus Hirrius Fronto Neratius Pansa, a suffect consul around the year 74.

Neratius was a very important classical jurist under Emperor Trajan . Already under the Flavian dynasty he was politically active, became a senator and rose to praetor in AD 88–90 and to consul consul in 97 AD . He served as governor of Germania inferior from 98-100, then from 103-106 as governor of the Roman province of Pannonia . He was, like his brother, a friend of Trajan and was among the Consilium to well then that Hadrian .

Neratius as a lawyer

Lucius Neratius Priscus was together with Iuventius Celsus head of the law school of the Proculians . Casuistry dominates his works . Even if not all works have survived, its influence on the development of Roman law was so significant that it is still clearly visible as a legal source in the digests of the Codex Justinianus with 63 fragments. The seven libri membranarum ( loose leaves ) of his works, which, like his Epistulae ( letters ) , which consist of at least four volumes, are only indirectly tangible through citations from other authors, contain numerous case studies, with numerous, even subtle cases as well as bold constructions , according to the doctrine of ius finitum (entered into Digest XXII, 6,2). Aulus Gellius reports exclusively on a book dealing with marriage law that has not survived ( liber singularis de nuptiis ) . He also wrote the 15 libri regularum ( legal rules ), of which only seven fragments have survived. His casuistic working method can also be seen in the 3 libri responsorum ( expert opinions ).

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ CIL 6,527
  2. ↑ CIL 12, 1675
  3. ↑ Tomasz Giaro: Neratius [5]. In: The New Pauly (DNP). Volume 8, Metzler, Stuttgart 2000, ISBN 3-476-01478-9 , Sp. 845.
  4. ↑ Christoph F. Wetzler: Rule of Law and Absolutism: Considerations on the Constitution of the Late Antique Empire based on CJ 1.14.8 , (= Freiburg legal-historical treatises ). At the same time: University, dissertation, Freiburg (Breisgau), 1995/96. Duncker and Humblot, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-428-08968-5 , pp. 168 ff. (169).
  5. ^ Digest I 2, 2, 53
  6. ↑ Herbert Hausmaninger , Walter Selb : Römisches Privatrecht , Böhlau, Vienna 1981 (9th edition 2001) (Böhlau-Studien-Bücher) ISBN 3-205-07171-9 , p. 44.
  7. ^ Gellius, Noctes Atticae 4, 4.
personal data
SURNAME Neratius Priscus, Lucius
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Priscus, Lucius Neratius
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Roman lawyer and politician
DATE OF BIRTH 1st century
DATE OF DEATH after 133