Societas, Societas Publicanorum and Peculium in the Context of Contemporary Corporate Entities

Abstract

The three institutes which we will analyze in this paper are: societas, societas publicanorum and peculium. It is these institutes. which in the roman legal system were the primary organizational-status forms in trade relations. There is an abundant amount of theoretical and empirical analysis surrounding the issue of whether corporate type entities existed in Ancient Rome, the issue of an abundance of historical analysis is lacking.