ABSTRACT
The administration of justice and the manner of judicial procedure have an important place in the history of the institutions of any state. The judges of the hetaireiai were perhaps concerned with tribal law and custom, and with adapting them to state requirements. and the Code mentions the orpanodikastai, who are particularly associated with an expansion of state power in the interests of the property rights of male persons. The judge has his mnamon, a public official, attached to the court, who assists in the procedure and the maintenance of records. Judge has no evidence about the method of choosing the dikastai or about their payment; but the Code gives us vital information about them of other kinds. The Code of Gortyna reveals an earlier stage in the development of the abstract power of law and the actual status of its functionaries. The style of writing of the Code itself is throughout simple, clear and uniform.
