Summary
Living honestly, civilizing, behaving without harming others, alterum not laedere, were needs strongly felt in the Roman juridical experience. In neighbourhood relations, aequitas and utilitas criteria played a special role in considering the exercise of a right as normal and lawful. In these pages we try to verify if the Romans ever elaborated a theory on the abuse of the law, or if the forms of reaction to unfair behaviour, and to the socially unwelcome ones simply fell within the rules of good neighbourliness.
