APOKRIMATA. Decisions of Septimius Severus on Legal Matters

1999. Legal Classics Library. Legal Classics Library. Severus, Lucius Septimius, Emperor of Rome (146-211). Westermann, William Linn (1873-1954). Schiller, A. Arthur (1902-1977). APOKRIMATA. Decisions of Septimius Severus on Legal Matters. Text, Translation, and Historical Analysis. Legal Commentary by A. Arthur Schiller. New York: Columbia University Press, 1954. x, one folding plate, 110 pp. Reprint The Legal Classics Library, 1999. Full blue calf, with gilt stamped spine and covers, all edges gilt. Fine. $45. * English with occasional Greek. Text, translation and historical analysis by Westermann; legal commentary by Schiller. Among the legal problems discussed are the sale of mortgaged property on foreclosure, the guardianship of orphans, the renunciation of an inheritance by a minor, the legal capacity of women, and the order of proceedings when a will was contested as a forgery.