Thanks for your new blog! According to "the ancient city" by Numa Denis Fustel de Coulanges for Romans the state was a religion. Their heaviest punishment was interdiction from fire and water. That is the religious fire that is burning in every Roman house, and the holy water they during for rites.
A commercial transaction was a religious ritual, for example Mancipatio: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mancipatio. It was only later that Roman law changed from divine law to human (pretorian) law.
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Thanks for your new blog! According to "the ancient city" by Numa Denis Fustel de Coulanges for Romans the state was a religion. Their heaviest punishment was interdiction from fire and water. That is the religious fire that is burning in every Roman house, and the holy water they during for rites.
A commercial transaction was a religious ritual, for example Mancipatio: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mancipatio. It was only later that Roman law changed from divine law to human (pretorian) law.
The book is fascinating reading.