Download or read book Letting and Hiring in Roman Legal Thought: 27 BCE - 284 CE written by Paul Du Plessis and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2012-04-19 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a fundamental reassessment of one of the most important commercial contracts in Roman law. By drawing on legal and non-legal source material, this book seeks to assess the development of the contract in light of Roman legal thought.