Roman and Neo-Babylonian Private Law in a Comparative Legal History Perspective

The Neo-Babylonian period is a period that was marked by an outstanding development of Babylonian society. Of course, the legal phenomenon is marked so, so many examples can be found of this legal development. This period corresponds to almost a thousand years, from the beginning of the first millennium BC. until the end of the Neo-Babylonian Empire. On the other hand, there is a stock of thousands of documents from the Neo-Babylonian period, which have not yet been published in their great majority. These documents, however, show that it was a question of a legally and economically developed society. To understand this period, it is plausible to analyse the sources in a comparative legal history perspective, specially with the Roman Private Law. Thus, we understand that the concepts and Roman Private Law institutions should be used as a communication element in scientific research in history of ancient law. Even with losses as the terminological precision, there dogmatists common elements sufficient for such use modern terms, suiting also the economic purpose of these legal forms.