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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Sallent, post: 2434204, member: 76194&quot;]<i>&quot;I, Tibullus, the freedman of Venustus have written and say that I owe Gratus, the freedman of Spurius, 105 denarii from the price of merchandise which has been sold and delivered …&quot;</i></p><p><br /></p><p>For the modern legal perspective, that is what we would call today &quot;account stated&quot; and would be a fairly straight forward case to prove should it go to court in light of the evidence. I hope this was not the ancient equivalent of a dead beat debtor. I hear the Romans didn&#039;t believe in bankruptcy and I imagine their methods of recovering were probably barbaric by today&#039;s standards (ie. selling yourself as a gladiator to pay your debts).[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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