Urban landlords and tenants

Paul Du Plessis

doi:10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198728689.013.46

Urban landlords and tenants

Paul Du Plessis

School of Law

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Abstract

This chapter examines legal and epigraphic sources devoted to the renting of mass housing in Rome and the other major cities of the Empire. Building on the pioneering work by Frier in 1980, it argues that the legal sources reveal a sophisticated system of subletting that was developed to accommodate the upper-class owners of these properties and left the daily management of them in the hands of venture capitalists. This was done not only to relieve these individuals of the stigma associated with commerce, but also to spread the financial risk of urban property investment among both owners and venture capitalists.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	The Oxford Handbook of Roman Law and Society
Editors	Paul J. du Plessis, Clifford Ando, Kaius Tuori
Place of Publication	Oxford
Publisher	Oxford University Press
Chapter	48
Pages	635-645
Number of pages	11
ISBN (Print)	9780198728689, 9780198852896
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198728689.013.46
Publication status	Published - 6 Oct 2016

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Keywords / Materials (for Non-textual outputs)

letting and hiring
locatio conductio
subletting
insula
cenaculum

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