PREFACE

    The present selection of Studies in Roman and Byzantine Law would never have appaered without the highly appreciated help and assitance of Dr Tom van Bochove. With disinterested energy he spent months not only in editing the collected articles but also in checking and, where necessary, correcting the numerous references while making some valuable additions as well: sometimes reference is made to articles which appeared at a later date. The happy result of this painstaking labour is this handsome volume of a number of my contributions to Roman and Byzantine Law.

    It should be observed that the articles by H.J. Scheltema which are often cited below are also to be found in: N. van der Wal, J.H.A. Lokin, B.H. Stolte and Roos Meijering (collegerunt): H.J. Scheltema, Opera minora ad iuris historiam pertinentia (Groningen, Chimaira bv., 2004, see: www.chimaira.nl). The Opera minora, including the monograph l'Enseignement de droit des entécesseurs, (Byzantina Neerlandica, Series B: Studia I) Leiden 1970, are not mentioned in the references originally made before 2004.

     With sincere and heartfelt thanks to Tom van Bochove I commend these Analecta to the interested reader.

Groningen, January 25, 2010                                                                                                      J.H.A. Lokin