Marcus Antistius Labeo

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Marcus Antistius Labeo (died 10 or 11 AD) was a Roman jurist.

Marcus Antistius Labeo was the son of

Caesar Augustus to the consulate even though Labeo was in line for the job. Smarting under the wrong done him, Labeo declined the office when it was offered to him in a subsequent year.[3]

From this time he seems to have devoted his whole time to

dialectics, philology (grammatica), and antiquities, as valuable aids in the exposition, expansion, and application of legal doctrine.[4] Down to the time of Hadrian
his was probably the name of greatest authority; and several of his works were abridged and annotated by later hands.

While Capito is hardly ever referred to, the dicta of Labeo are of constant recurrence in the writings of the classical jurists, such as

Proculian school, while Capito is spoken of as the founder of the rival Sabinian one;[5] but it is probable that the real founders of the two scholae were Proculus and Masurius Sabinus
, followers respectively of the methods of Labeo and Capito.

Labeo's most important literary work was the Libri posteriores, so called because published only after his death. It contained a systematic exposition of the common law. His Libri ad Edictum embraced a commentary, not only on the edicts of the urban and peregrine praetors, but also on that of the

curule aediles
. His Probabilium lib. VIII., a collection of definitions and axiomatic legal propositions, seems to have been one of his most characteristic productions.

References

  1. ^ Ernst Badian, "The Attempt to Try Caesar", in J.A.S. Evans (ed.), Polis and Imperium (Toronto 1974), p. 152
  2. ^ Ann. iii. 75
  3. Pomponius
    in fr. 47, Dig. i. 2
  4. ^ Gell. Xiii. 10
  5. ^ Pomponius in fr. 47, Dig. i. 2
  • Johann Maier Eck
    , De vita, moribus, et studiis M. Ant. Labeonis (Franeker, 1692), in Oelrichss Thes. nov., vol. i.
  • Johannes Jacobus Mascovius, De sectis Sabinianorum et Proculianorum (1728)
  • Lothar Anton Alfred Pernice, Marcus Antistius Labeo. Das römische Privatrecht im 1. Jahrhundert der Kaiserzeit (Halle, 1873–1892)
  •  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Labeo, Marcus Antistius". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 16 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 3.
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