Sextus Pomponius

Sextus Pomponius was one of the leading Roman jurists in the High Classical period of Roman law (2nd century).

Little is known about Pomponius' person. He was a contemporary of Gaius and was close to his legal convictions, because like him, he was a representative of the classical legal conception of the Sabine school of law. Just like Gaius, Pomponius had no ius respondendi that would have allowed him to answer legal and legal inquiries instead of the emperor. Its importance lies in the fact that he was the author of doctrinal commentaries on the law . For example, he wrote an encheiridion (liber singularis enchiridii) in which he presented the Roman legal history up to his time (although this manual is a transcript, probably a legal lecture, and therefore some "facts" are historically incorrect or distorted ) and which has been revised in Digest 1,2,2. It explains the traditions of Roman jurists , which are still the main source of the classics today .

He also wrote three commentaries on the civil law textbooks of the lawyers Quintus Mucius Scaevola , who was pontifex maximus and consul ( libri ad Quintum Mucium ; 39 books), Masurius Sabinus ( ad Sabinum ; 35 books) and Plautius , as well as a comment known only from later quotations to the praetoric edict (ad edictum) . In his comments he summed up the classical age of jurisprudence. He devoted monographic treatises to entails , stipulation and the senatus consulta . Two case collections compiled by him were probably later combined into one work.

Pomponius is quoted particularly frequently in the Pandects by Ulpian , which is why the Digest contains 578 excerpts from Pomponius.

literature

Jan Dirk Harke : Roman law. From the classical period to the modern codifications . Beck, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-406-57405-4 ( floor plans of the law ), § 1 no. 16 (p. 13).
Herbert Hausmaninger , Walter Selb : Römisches Privatrecht , Böhlau, Vienna 1981 (9th edition 2001) (Böhlau-Studien-Bücher) ISBN 3-205-07171-9 , p. 45.
Heinrich Honsell : Roman law. 5th edition, Springer, Zurich 2001, ISBN 3-540-42455-5 , p. 15.
Tomasz Giaro: S. Pomponius. In: The New Pauly (DNP). Volume 10, Metzler, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-476-01480-0 , column 125.
Detlef Liebs : Aemilius Papinianus. In: Klaus Sallmann (ed.): The literature of upheaval. From Roman to Christian literature, AD 117 to 284 (= Handbook of Ancient Latin Literature , Volume 4). CH Beck, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-406-39020-X , pp. 144-150

Individual evidence

^ ^A ^b Herbert Hausmaninger , Walter Selb : Römisches Privatrecht , Böhlau, Vienna 1981 (9th edition 2001) (Böhlau-Studien-Bücher) ISBN 3-205-07171-9 , p. 45.
^ Heinrich Honsell : Roman law. 5th edition, Springer, Zurich 2001, ISBN 3-540-42455-5 , p. 15.
^ Jan Dirk Harke : Roman law. From the classical period to the modern codifications . Beck, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-406-57405-4 ( floor plans of the law ), § 1 no. 16 (p. 13).

personal data
SURNAME	Pomponius, Sextus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Roman jurist
DATE OF BIRTH	1st century or 2nd century
DATE OF DEATH	2nd century or 3rd century

[Selb-1] A ^b Herbert Hausmaninger , Walter Selb : Römisches Privatrecht , Böhlau, Vienna 1981 (9th edition 2001) (Böhlau-Studien-Bücher) ISBN 3-205-07171-9 , p. 45.

[2] Heinrich Honsell : Roman law. 5th edition, Springer, Zurich 2001, ISBN 3-540-42455-5 , p. 15.

[3] Jan Dirk Harke : Roman law. From the classical period to the modern codifications . Beck, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-406-57405-4 ( floor plans of the law ), § 1 no. 16 (p. 13).