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Beiträge zur Rechtsgeschichte Österreichs
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I. Rechtsgeschichte des Mittelalters und der Frühen Neuzeit
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BANK AUSTRIA CREDITANSTALT, WIEN (IBAN AT04 1100 0006 2280 0100, BIC BKAUATWW), DEUTSCHE BANK MÜNCHEN (IBAN DE16 7007 0024 0238 8270 00, BIC DEUTDEDBMUC)
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Beiträge zur Rechtsgeschichte Österreichs 10. Jahrgang Heft 2/2020, pp. 360-368, 2021/05/12
Mittel- und osteuropäische Rechtshistorische Konferenz 2019
Central and Eastern European Legal History Conference 2019
The German terminus “Herkommen” stands for prolonged practice and is used frequently in the “Römisches Staatsrecht” by Theodor Mommsen. Wolfgang Kunkel is the author of one of the most extensive revisions of Mommsen’s systematic approach. He uses the term as a key concept in his attempt to redraw the Constitutional Law of the Roman Republic and understands it clearly in the sense of Customary Law. Referring to Mommsen’s work, Kunkel states that in reading the “Römisches Staatsrecht” he never encountered the concept of “Herkommen” in the sense of a source of law. The paper shows how Kunkel, from a realistic perspective, builds up the Roman institutions out of the political practice during the Republic. Based on some specific cases, the paper compares the different ways of evaluating ancient text represented by Kunkel and Mommsen and examines their different approaches to the institutions of the Roman Republic.
Keywords: Customary Law – ‘Herkommen’ – Institution – Theodor MOMMSEN – System