[1397] Cf. p. 284 for this rule and for the exception to it made in 166 B.C.
[1398] In the first treaty with Carthage two kinds of legal satisfaction are given to Roman traders. In Libya and Sardinia the state guarantees the debt; in the Sicilian cities under the Carthaginian protectorate Romans and Carthaginians are on an equal footing (Polyb. iii. 22).
[1399] Hartmann (O. E.) Der ordo judiciorum und die judicia extraordinaria der Römer Thl. i. pp. 229 ff.
[1400] Festus p. 274 “Reciperatio est, ut ait Gallus Aelius, cum inter populum et reges nationesque et civitates peregrinas lex convenit quomodo per reciperatores reddantur res reciperenturque resque privatas inter se persequantur.” See Keller Civilprocess p. 36; Rudorff Rechtsgeschichte ii. p. 34.
[1401] p. 207.
[1402] In the treaty supposed to be the work of Spurius Cassius and to date from 493 B.C. the following clause was found: τῶν τ’ ἰδιωτικῶν συμβολαίων αἱ κρίσεις ἐν ἡμέραις γιγνέσθωσαν δέκα, παρ’ οἷς ἂν γένηται τὸ συμβόλαιον (Dionys. vi. 95).
[1403] Dionys. iii. 34, 51.
[1404] ib. vi. 95; Festus p. 241.
[1405] Dionys. viii. 70, 74.
[1406] p. 295.