Anthony Maurice Honoré, QC, FBA (30 March 1921[1] – 26 February 2019[2]) was a British lawyer and jurist known for his work on ownership, causation and Roman law.
He served in the South African Infantry during the Second World War and was severely wounded in the Battle of Alamein.
A number of his philosophical papers are collected in Making Law Bind (Oxford, 1987) and Responsibility and Fault (Oxford, 1999) and his contributions to legal philosophy and Roman law, which range widely, include 16 books and more than a 100 articles published over six decades.
He used this opportunity to point to the parallel between the extension of citizenship to all free people in the Roman Empire, regardless of race, sex or religion, by Caracalla in 211 AD, and the extension of citizenship to the whole of the South African population.
On 17 September 2004 he received honorary citizenship from the then mayor of San Ginesio, Pietro Enrico Parrucci.