English Abstract: Latin notaries are more and more frequently defined as gatekeepers, due to their role in providing preventive legal control (in addition to certifying documents), a role that becomes increasingly important in modern legal systems.However, applying this american term loosely to...

French Abstract:L’article est consacré au gage dans les lois gortyniennes du Ve siècle avant J.-C. Nous avons essayé de démontrer que le gage supposait la dépossession, c’est-à-dire qu’il impliquait le transfert de la possession de l’objet mis en gage au créancier. L’objet mis...