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This edition is a reprint of the doctoral thesis, published in 1991. Due to the limitations set by the present way of publishing the pagenumbers of the first edition had to be indicated in the text by way of a vertical line with the page number (an example of a page can be viewed at www.glubbdubdrib.com). Some printing errors have been corrected as well.Contents:The emperors took great care in setting up a reliable supply for the distributions, both in Rome and, later, in the New Rome: Constantinople. This involved in the first place the supply of grain. The aim of this study is to focus on this system, primarily in as far as it was laid down in legal rules and jurisprudence. In addition, the way in which the milling and baking of this grain was regulated, the distributions of olive oil, wine and pork, and the management of the supply of these goods, is discussed. Thus this study is concerned with the organization of the importation and processing of all goods included in free distributions.
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A.J.B. Sirks submitted his doctoral thesis in 1991 at the University of Amsterdam. From 1998 he was Professor of Ancient Legal History, History of European Private Law and (German) Private Law at the J.W. Goethe University of Frankfurt on Main, and is since 2006 Regius Professor of Civil Law in the University of Oxford.
