Abstract
Summary In 1996, Roger Tomlin published a document from ancient London (rib ii 2443.19), which contains a professional Latin legal text. It mentions a purchase transaction, but it is not a deed of sale. The expressions used (cum ventum esset, in rem praesentem, se emisse dicetur, testatus est se) rather indicate an extrajudicial, pre-trial context. The interpretation proposed here builds on the results of recent research in Roman law of procedure. Several indications suggest that the tabula records a preparatory act for future trial between the protagonists: Bellicus (the pursuer) bindingly declares that he is ready to take an extrajudicial oath concerning a contract of sale with his opponent, about this he can produce no other evidence.
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