Juridical Regulation of Sea Transportation in Ancient Rome

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Fernando Jiménez Valderrama
Universidad de La Sabana

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The field of sea transportation was very important in ancient Rome. The 'civitas' needed to be supplied with products coming from the entire Mediterranean Sea by using sea transportation. Roman legal institutions used habits created by other peoples with experience in navigation. In Roman law, the contract called 'locatio-conductio' was used for regulating sea transportation. Some of these contracts were used for commerce and are strongly related to current sea transportation contracts from both Common Law and European Continental Law. In addition to the responsibility emerging from the application of these contracts, the Roman law set a responsibility based on the reception of goods, called 'ex-recepto' responsibility. Legal solutions of ancient Mediterranean constituted a solid base for erecting the Roman law. Maritime rules of Roman law explain some legal institutions in force in relation to sea transportation and still in full force through our law

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Jiménez Valderrama, F. (2014). Juridical Regulation of Sea Transportation in Ancient Rome. Opinión Jurídica, 13(26). Retrieved from https://revistas.udem.edu.co/index.php/opinion/article/view/963

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Fernando Jiménez Valderrama, Universidad de La Sabana

Profesor y jefe del Área de Derecho Privado y de la Empresa de la Facultad de Derecho de la Universidad de La Sabana (Colombia). Abogado de la Universidad del Rosario (Colombia). Doctor en Derecho de la Universidad de Salamanca (España). Máster en Derecho de la Unión Europea por la Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (España). Ha sido profesor en las Universidades San Pablo–CEU, Complutense y Carlos III de Madrid y Director del Instituto Europeo de Estudios Marítimos. Es miembro de la Asociación Española de Derecho Ma­rítimo y del Ilustre Colegio de Abogados de Madrid (España)..