IL TESTAMENTO SEGRETO ROMANO E IL SENATOCONSULTO NERONIANO
Journal Title: CIVITAS ET LEX - Year 2018, Vol 18, Issue 2
Abstract
The text entitled “Il testamento segreto romano e il Senatoconsulto Neroniano” [“The Secret Testament in Rome and the Neronian Senatoconsultum”] is the result of a report I gave during the X Ionian-Polish Conference on the topic “Il segreto nei sistemi giuridici” [“The secret in legal systems”], held in Warsaw at Uczelnia Lazarskego University on 31 May 2017. The topic in question concerns a kind of secret in Roman law that is more significant than ever in will and testament matters. On the contrary, from a dynamic viewpoint, it presents a characteristic reversal: from more ancient forms of intended maximum publicity, we switch to the protection of the greatest possible secrecy surrounding a deed with which the testator manifested and laid down his or her will. The subject of the report concerns the problem related to a discussion between some scholars about the secrecy of the will for aes et libram in the classical age: from the exaggeration of believing that the secrecy of the Roman testament is set per aes et libram by the Neronian senatusconsultum we then move on to the opposite exaggeration of an unjustified devaluation of the news on the senatusconsultum, stating that the will could never be secret, because until the final closure and sealing, the tablets remained open and accessible to the witnesses. Nevertheless, upon reading the analysed sources, it is quite clear that even in the classical era, the secret “librale” will and testament was recognised and conferred legal protection thanks to the Neronian Sc. and that the constitution of Theodosius only sought to restore the caution in ancient law that the inexperience of posterity and the presumption of the witnesses had gradually changed.
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Maria Luisa De Filippi
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