Polubowne metody rozwiązywania sporów w późnej starożytności – sprawa P. Mich. XIII 659
Amicable means of dispute resolution in Late Antiquity – the case of P. Mich. XIII 659

Summary/Abstract: The arbitration and alternative means of dispute resolution in the Roman law have attracted scholarly attention. The recent years witnessed a particular interest in the practical application of these institutions. At first sight, legal papyri may seem confusing and distant from the standard solutions known from the compilations of the Roman law. On a closer look, however, in the complex web of legal conceptsand terms, one can notice the context of the agreement and the relations connecting both sides of the dispute. The present article offers a legal analysis of P. Mich.XIII 659, published in 1977 that concerns a dispute settled by the means of mesiteia (i.e. mediation or arbitration). A plausible reconstruction of events is provided, which allows insight into the numerous correlations between the institutions and regulations of the Roman Law on one side and the legal practice of the papyri onthe other.

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