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AUC IURIDICA, Vol 43 No 2 (1997), 7–17
Omezování přepychu v římském právu
[Limits Laid Upon Luxury in Roman Law]
Michal Skřejpek
DOI: https://doi.org/10.14712/23366478.2025.246
published online: 31. 03. 2020
abstract
Even though Roman Law is often mentioned as an example of a system of law where ownership is understood as actual and unlimited power over things, we may nevertheless encounter diverse restrictions placed on this institution. Limits placed upon various manifestations of luxurious ways of life is the case. This was effected most frequently by means of special laws adopted by popular assemblies – leges sumptuariae whereby the Romans were restrained mainly in their burial, feast and clothing expenditures. The oldest provisions regulating this area can be found as early as in the Code of the Twelve Tables. Other norms were lex Metilia de fullonibus dating back to 217 B.C., lex Oppia sumptuaria (215 B.C.), lex Orchia de coenis (181 B.C.), lex Fannia cibaria (161 B.C.), lex Didia sumptuaria (143 B.C.), lex Licinia sumptuaria (103 B.C.), lex Cornelia (81 B.C.), lex Iulia de vestitu et habitu (18 B.C.). Similar bans can be seen in the beginning of the principate era and they date back to the period of Emperor Tiberius rule. The last allusion to this type of norm was Nero’s restriction on the dishes offered in taverns. We find it interesting that the regulation provided by the Code of the Twelve Tables had long sufficed for the Romans and it was not until Rome began to accumulate wealth coming from its successful aggressive wars and dominated provinces (i.e. approximately since the Second Punic War) that the need to newly regulate this area came to be felt. Evidence shown through frequently repeated bans tell us that attempts to bring back ancient traditional morals were far from successful in the period of the Republic. Consequently the endeavour to regulate this area in the Empire was entirely abandoned.
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