Gaius
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Institutes of Roman Law
Roman jurist of the second century AD, author of the Institutes (Commentaries), a foundational legal textbook.
The Commentaries of Gaius are referred to by numbers indicating the book and the paragraph:
It had not been closed even by the time of Gaius, about the middle of the second century a.
The text of Gaius adopted is that of the last edition of Krueger and Studemund, which its German proprietors have again most kindly allowed us to use.
Ancient Law
Later Roman jurist noted as author of treatises rather than Responses.
But Ulpian and Paulus, Gaius and Papinian, were not authors of Responses.
An unfortunate attempt to discriminate them was made by the jurisconsult Ulpian, with the propensity to distinguish characteristic of a lawyer, but the language of Gaius, a much higher authority, and the passage quoted before from the Institutes, leave no room for doubt that the expressions were practically convertible The difference between them was entirely historical, and no distinction in esse …
Gaius, writing under the Antonines, describes the institution as distinctively Roman.
The Rights of War and Peace
Roman jurist cited for the maxim that natural reason permits self-defense.
Caius and Lawyer says, natural reason permits us to defend ourselves against dangers.
Now the term weapon comprehends not only an instrument of iron, but as Caius interprets this law, a club, or a stone.
Letting and hiring, as Caius has justly said, come nearest to selling and buying, and are regulated by the same principles.
Lectures on the Early History of Institutions
Roman jurist whose treatise (Institutes) is the primary ancient source for the Legis Actiones discussed.
If, says Gaius, you sued by Legis Actio for injury to your vines, and called them vines, you would fail;
First of all let us ask whether Gaius himself gives us any hint of its meaning and significance in the primitive Roman system.
Gaius, leaving the Condictio, proceeds to discuss two of the Legis Actiones, the Manus Injectio and the Pignoris Capio, which cannot be made to square in any way with our modern conception of an action.
Dissertations on Early Law and Custom
Roman jurist whose rediscovered Commentaries illuminate the earliest strata of Roman law.
Its revival may be said to be owing to Niebuhr’s discovery of the ‘Commentaries of Gaius,’ which, though not directly treating of ancient Roman law, enabled us to divide it into successive stages or strata, and gave us a singularly complete view of the earliest among them.
But on the whole the arrangement in which the compilers of Justinian’s ‘Institutes’ followed Gaius, distributing law in Law of Persons, Law of Things, and Law of Actions, became the point of departure for theories of legal classification.
Meditations
Roman ruler (likely Caligula), cited as an example of a man burdened with worldly power.
Alexander, Gaius, and Pompey — what are they beside Diogenes, Heraclitus, and Socrates?
On Tranquillity of Mind
The Roman emperor (Caligula), portrayed as a cruel and capricious tyrant responsible for Pompey's humiliation and Julius Canus's execution.
Gaius's good faith in such orders was well known!
Or was he reproaching Gaius with his daily madness?
We have seen Ptolemy, king of Africa, and Mithridates of Armenia among the guards of Gaius;
The Law of Torts
Roman jurist Gaius, whose Institutes and Digest fragments are quoted as authority on liability for wrongdoing (iniuria) and the requirement of fault.
“Nullus videtur dolo facere, qui suo iure utitur.
“Inpunitus est qui sine culpa et dolo malo casu quodam damnum committit.
though it could never have for Gaius or Ulpian the wide meaning of “harm [of any kind] which gives no cause of action.
Adversus Valentinianos
A stock example name used satirically by Tertullian for an ordinary male Valentinian believer.
Such useful fables—that Marcus or Gaius, in this flesh, bearded and with all these things, a stern husband, a father, a grandfather, a great-grandfather—certainly, what is enough, a male—should, in the bridal chamber of the Pleroma, by an angel—I have said it already by keeping silent—and perhaps you may bear some Aeon Onesimus!