Articles (Law)

Every Roman owner was entitled to transfer his title to the property, however for the actual transfer to occur there were separate legal procedures required between the transferor and the buyer. Apart from the agreement between the parties involved there was also needed a visible and obvious act of transferring the control over any given thing. These requirements were abolished in 293 CE with an emperor’s act in accordance with simplifying the property trading.

In ancient Rome, institutional mechanisms emerged to determine whether the lower law was in conformity with the higher law. It turns out that some Roman procedural solutions resembled the modern doctrine of judicial review of the law.