PREFACE 

    Eight years have passed since the previous volume was published. Optimistic words in that volume's preface clearly have not come true. It is nevertheless a pleasure to present the fruits of research in Byzantine law from the intervening period and to show that the Subseciva Groningana are alive and well.

     In recent years the never numerous circle of students of the ius graeco-romanum has lost two outstanding members and contributors to the Subseciva in the past, Marie Theres Fögen and Giulilana Lanata. We remember them as colleagues and friends.

     Our thanks go to Dr. Thomas van Bochove for considerable assistance in the technical production of the present volume.

The Editors