Sources Of Roman Maritime Law in The Digest

6. Summary of Findings

Considering the earliest and latest jurists to be quoted in the Digest on maritime…

particular time, except that the lex Rhodia and the transmarine loan have been inherited from pre-Roman times, whereas the priorities of claims on ship and cargo possibly date from the later classical period(435)…

The Index auctorum lists 38 jurists, whose works have been excerpted(436).…

It follows that specific issues such as general average, transmarine loans, contracts…