The Taxonomy of the Legal Document

This book presents the results of a long-term investigation into the structure of Greek legal documents preserved on papyrus. It provides a clause-by-clause analysis of 281 formulations used in contracts, mostly from Egypt, spanning the early Hellenistic to the late Byzantine period. Designed as bot...

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description This book presents the results of a long-term investigation into the structure of Greek legal documents preserved on papyrus. It provides a clause-by-clause analysis of 281 formulations used in contracts, mostly from Egypt, spanning the early Hellenistic to the late Byzantine period. Designed as both a typology and a research tool, the study is based on the Synallagma database—a digital corpus first created with the support of the Israel Science Foundation and now hosted at the University of Münster. The approach is philological, quantitative, and comparative: each clause is examined for its syntactic form, legal function, and diachronic trajectory. The goal is to uncover the linguistic mechanisms by which scribes encoded rights, duties, and transfers of ownership. As a contribution to legal history and historical linguistics, the book offers an empirical foundation for the study of formulaic writing in antiquity—well beyond the specific body of sources it analyzes.
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spelling doab-20.500.12854ir-1662092025-08-27T13:02:58Z The Taxonomy of the Legal Document Yiftach, Uri Classical philology Legal-document taxonomy Greek contracts Clause analysis Historical-linguistic typology Papyri legislation Synallagma corpus thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DB Ancient, classical and medieval texts thema EDItEUR::C Language and Linguistics::CF Linguistics::CFF Historical and comparative linguistics thema EDItEUR::L Law::LA Jurisprudence and general issues::LAZ Legal history This book presents the results of a long-term investigation into the structure of Greek legal documents preserved on papyrus. It provides a clause-by-clause analysis of 281 formulations used in contracts, mostly from Egypt, spanning the early Hellenistic to the late Byzantine period. Designed as both a typology and a research tool, the study is based on the Synallagma database—a digital corpus first created with the support of the Israel Science Foundation and now hosted at the University of Münster. The approach is philological, quantitative, and comparative: each clause is examined for its syntactic form, legal function, and diachronic trajectory. The goal is to uncover the linguistic mechanisms by which scribes encoded rights, duties, and transfers of ownership. As a contribution to legal history and historical linguistics, the book offers an empirical foundation for the study of formulaic writing in antiquity—well beyond the specific body of sources it analyzes. Published 2025-08-27T13:02:56Z 2025-08-27T13:02:56Z 2025-06 book 978-2-87562-473-4 978-2-87019-338-9 978-2-87019-339-6 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/166209 eng RIDA. Hors série image/jpeg Attribution 4.0 International https://e-publish.uliege.be/taxonomy/ https://e-publish.uliege.be/taxonomy/ Presses universitaires de Liège ULiège Library / Presses universitaires de Liège 10.25518/978-2-87562-473-4 10.25518/978-2-87562-473-4 2e1be080-04bf-49c1-ba08-e6934a18e43e 978-2-87562-473-4 978-2-87019-338-9 978-2-87019-339-6 ULiège Library / Presses universitaires de Liège 3 Liège open access
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Legal-document taxonomy
Greek contracts
Clause analysis
Historical-linguistic typology
Papyri legislation
Synallagma corpus
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thema EDItEUR::C Language and Linguistics::CF Linguistics::CFF Historical and comparative linguistics
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The Taxonomy of the Legal Document
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Legal-document taxonomy
Greek contracts
Clause analysis
Historical-linguistic typology
Papyri legislation
Synallagma corpus
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Papyri legislation
Synallagma corpus
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