Fase istruttoria e modalità di giudizio nella prima colonna del ‘codice’ di Gortina

The article,after considering in a general way the two types of legal procedures regulated in the first column of the Code of Gortyn (CdG I, 2-14; CdG I, 15-24),focuses on CdG I, 15-34 and, especially with regard to the probationary discipline of the trials regulated in CdG I, 15- 24, it aims at demonstrating that: the Gortynian diadikasic procedure implies that the burden of proof lies on both parties;the rules which provide for a ‘dikastic κρίνεν after the oath’ when there are no witness or when both the formal actor and the formal defendant produce their own witness,are not susceptible to any generalization and, therefore,they can not apply to those procedures in which just one party has to provide evidence