Antonio Díaz Bautista and justinian law

Abstract

Antonio Díaz Bautista, Roman law Professor at the University of Murcia (Spain), published between 1979 and 1987 a series of works about the personal guarantees and banking businesses in the legislation of Justinian. This article presents the results of such research among which stands out the monograph “Estudios sobre la banca bizantina” (Murcia, 1987). It discusses different bank contracts governed in the Justinian’s Novellae and the innovations introduced at the request of the banking corporation. Special interest deserves the conclusions that the Author reaches about the “kazara antifonesis” and its identification with the receptum argentarii, purportedly repealed -by deprecated - by Justinian in CJ 4.18.2..