Considerations about the concept of fuel in roman jurisprudende

Abstract

This paper is part with the examination of the etymology the term fuel and its semantic precedent in Rome. It is mainly dicussed fuel about the content of a legate of wood, and also it is intended to determine what was considered a fuel object –with the utility wich presents– in the scope of casuistry jurisprudence since veteres from the republican times until the moment this notion is settled under the title ‘De verborum significatione’ in the Digest of Justinian. It is studied the criteria that were being used increasingly to define the legal concept, and drawing possible similarities with other modern coined terms as the biomass.