N. 9 – 2010 – Notizie
Anna Tarwacka
Romans
and
Pirates
legal perspective
Wydawnictwo
Uniwersytetu Kardynala Stefana Wyszynskiego
Warszawa, 2009 – pp. 200
ISBN 978-83-7072-583-9
Table of Contents
ABBREVIATIONS
9
I. INTRODUCTION
11
I.1. Piracy in the light
of the existing international law
11
I.2. Sources
13
I.3. State of research
14
I.4.
Layout
16
II. THE NOTION OF PIRACY IN ANCIENT ROME
17
II.1 Pirate, piracy -
terminological issues
17
II.2. Scope
of acts ascribed to pirates
21
III. ROME IN COMBAT AGAINST PIRATES
26
III.1. Historical outline
26
III.2. Lex
de piratis persequendis
37
III.3. Lex Gabinia de uno imperatore contra
praedones constituendo
60
IV. PIRATE — AN ENEMY OF ALL MANKIND OR JUST A BANDIT?
56
IV.1. Status of pirates in the light of the Roman ius
belli and ius gentium
56
IV.1.1. Introductory remarks
56
IV.1.2. Bellum
iustum and the conflict with pirates
57
IV.1.3. The problem of granting a
triumph for victory over pirates
67
IV. 2. The term
pirata as a form of political insult
71
IV.2.1. Exemple
of Sextus Pompeius
72
IV.3. Consequences
of the piratical captivity
86
IV.3.1. Status of persons captured by pirates
86
IV.3.2. Pirate prisoners and the ius postliminii
92
IV.3.3. Rights of the pirate captives
94
IV.3.4. Situation of the redemptus a
piratis
97
V. ROMAN CRIMINAL LAW TOWARDS PIRACY
101
V.1. Crimina committed by pirates
101
V.1.1. Crimen vis
101
V.1.2. Direptio ex
naufragio
106
V.1.3. Lex Cornelia de
sicariis et veneficis
113
V.1.4. Lex Fabia de plagio
115
V.2. Jurisdiction
in criminal cases regarding pirates
119
V.2.1. The
case of Julius Caesar
119
V.2.2. Trial of Verres, governor of Sicilia
124
V.2.3. Ius gladii
132
V.2.4. Defence
against pirates' attack
135
VI. PIRATE ATTACK IN THE LIGHT OF THE PRIVATE LAW
138
VI.1. Introductory remarks
138
VI.2. Pirate
attack as an example of force majeure
139
VI.3. Lex Rhodia de iactu and analogical cases
154
VI.4. Praetor's edict De
incendio ruina naufragio rate nave expugnata
159
Capitolo VI
VII. Conclusion
163
Index of sources
170
Bibliography
179
