Lucius Neratius Priscus membranarum libri VII: 19

This volume deals with the main work of Naratius, a jurist active between the end of the 1st and the first decades of the 2nd century CE, which has an ambiguous title and an apparently unsystematic structure. Emerging from the passages transmitted through Justinian's Digesta are the treatment of general problems, such as the idea of ius as a closed system, ignorance of law, and the link between will and factual knowledge. Humanitas toward slaves, manifested in the time of Nerva, when our jurist held the office of consul, also plays a prominent role. Some of these characteristics and the almost total absence in the work of references to imperial law sketch the author's profile as a distinguished representative of the Italic senatorial classes, often not hostile but not even perfectly aligned with the power of the Emperors.