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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: discovery of the fact
  name:
    name part: Ando, Clifford
    name part: 1969-
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: Sullivan, William Peyton
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: Michigan Publishing (University of Michigan)
    role:
      role term: publisher.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: miu
    date issued: 2020
    copyright date: 2020
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (vi, 204 pages)
  abstract: 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 adjudicators of facts. But legal institutions also played an essential role in the emergence of the notion of the fact, and contributed in a vital way to commonplace understandings of what is knowable and what is not. These issues have a particular importance in ancient Greece and Rome, the first western societies in which state law and state institutions of dispute resolution visibly play a decisive role in ordinary social and economic relations. The Discovery of the Fact investigates, historically and comparatively, the relationships among the law, legal institutions, and the boundaries of knowledge in classical Greece and Rome. Societies wanted citizens to conform to the law, but how could this be insured? On what foundation did ancient courts and institutions base their decisions, and how did they represent the reasoning behind their decisions when announcing them? Slaves were owned like things, and yet they had minds that ancients conceded were essentially unknowable. What was to be done? And where has the boundary been drawn between questions of law and questions of fact when designing processes of dispute resolution?
  note: edited by Clifford Ando and William P. Sullivan.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    topic: Law, Greek
  subject:
    topic: Roman law
  subject:
    topic: Law, Ancient
  subject:
    topic: Law and fact
  subject:
    topic: Evidence (Greek law)
  subject:
    topic: Evidence (Roman law)
  subject:
    topic: Facts (Philosophy)
    topic: Legal aspects
  classification: KJA172
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Law and society in the ancient world
  identifier: 9780472131884
  identifier: 0472131885
  identifier: 9780472126644
  identifier: 0472126644
  identifier: http://proxy.library.tamu.edu/login
  record info:
    record content source: EYM
    record creation date: 200911
    record change date: 20221129150511.9
    record identifier: in00004605197
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng