Labéon

See also: Antistius

Marcus Antistius Labeo is a Roman lawyer which approx. lived of 50 av. J. - C. with 20 a. J. - C.

Antistius directed a school of right. He wrote nearly 400 works, mainly lost, on legal questions (Loi of the Twelve Tables, Praetorian Edit) but such historical, philosophical, rhetorics, linguistics.

What follows is drawn from the article of Wikipedia English itself borrowed from Encycopædia Britannica of 1911, maintaining in the public domain.

Labéon (Marcus Antistius Labeo) (death in 10 or 11) was an eminent lawyer of ancient Rome.

He was wire of the politician Pacuvius Antistius Labeo, who committed suicide after the defeat of his party to the battle of Philips. Member of the nobility plebeian and enjoying an easy situation, the Labéon young person entered the public life early and was not long in becoming praetor; but its antipathy not disguised towards the new mode and the rather abrupt way in which, on the occasion, it expressed with the Roman senate its republican sympathies were an obstacle with its advance and its rival, Ateius Capiton, which had given an adhesion without reserve to the capacity in place, was promoted by Auguste with the Consulat, whereas this nomination should have fallen to Labéon; ulcerated by this injustice, Labéon refused the function when it to him was offered another year.

As from this time, it seems to have devoted all its time to jurisprudence. Its formation in this science came to him mainly from Trebatius Testa. To its knowledge of the law, he added a vast general culture, being interested especially in the Dialectique, the Philologie (grammar) and in antiquities as with invaluable auxiliaries in the exposure, the development and the application of the legal doctrines (Aulu-Cold, Xiii. 10). Until the time of Hadrian, it is undoubtedly its name which had the most authority and several of its works were put in summary and annotated by later hands.

Whereas it is hardly if Capito were quoted once, the dictated of Labéon return constantly in the writings of the traditional lawyers, such as Gaius, Ulpien and Paul; a considerable number of these dictated furentt judged worthy to be preserved in the Digeste of Justinien. Labéon passes to have been the founder of the sect or school proculienne, whereas one allots to Capito the foundation of the sect or rival school known as sabinienne; but it is probable that the true founders of these two schools were Proculus and Sabinus, partisans respectively of the methods of Labéon and Capito.

The most important literary work of Labéon was consisted the Libri posteriores , thus named because they were published only after its death. These books contain a systematic talk of the civil law. Its Libri AD Edictum comprised a comment, not only on the edicts of the urban praetors and pérégrins, but also on those of the curule municipal officials. Its eight books of Probabilia , collection of definitions and axiomatic legal proposals, seem to have been one of its most characteristic productions.

References

Johann Maier Eck, Of vita, moribus, and studiis Mr. Ant. Labeonis (Franeker, 1692), in Oelrichss Teas. Nov., vol. I.
Johannes Jacobus Mascovius, Of sectis Sabinianorum and Proculianorum (1728)
Lothar Anton Alfred Pernice, Marcus Antistius Labeo. Das römische Privatrecht im 1. Jahrhundert der Kaiserzeit (Market, 1873-1892)
Huschke: Iurisprudentia Anteiustiniana , post pH. ED. Huschke ED. E. Seckel and B. Kuebler, Leipzig 1907.

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