An introduction to Roman law : txt
by Barry Nicholas.
- xiv, 301 p. 22 cm. book
- Clarendon law series .
index.
Bibliography
CONTENTS : I. HISTORY AND SOURCES OF THE LAW -- I. INTRODUCTION -- 1. The claims of Roman Law -- 2. The constitutional and historical background 3 -- The struggle between the Orders , and the Republican constitution 3 -- The later Republic 7 -- The Principate 10 -- The Dominate 12 -- II. SOURCES OF THE LAW 14 -- 1. Statutes 14 -- Lex and plebiscitum 14 -- Senatusconsulta 16 -- Constitutiones principis 17 -- 2. Edicts of Magistrates 19 -- The general function of the Praetor 19 -- The particular function of the Praetor 23 -- Character of the ius honorarium 26 -- Actions and procedure of the late law 27 -- 3. Juristic Interpretation 28 -- Interpretatio prudentium 28 -- Ius respondendi 31 -- The Sabinian and Proculian Schools 32 -- Forms of legal literature 33 -- The " classical period ” The Institutes of Gaius 34 -- The post classical period 36 -- III. THE WORK OF JUSTINIAN 38 -- The Corpus luris Civilis 39 -- Character of the Digest 42 -- IV. THE SECOND LIFE OF ROMAN LAW 45 -- Survival in the East 45 -- Survival and revival in the West 46 -- The Reception of Roman law 48 -- The Humanist revival 50 -- Natural law 50 -- Codification and the modern Civil law 51 -- The modern historical study of Roman law 53 -- V. IUS NATURALE , IUS GENTIUM 54 -- II. LAW OF PERSONS -- Introductory The arrangement of the Institutes 60 -- Formalism 61 -- 1. Main features of the law 64 -- Citizens and non – citizens 64 -- The Roman family-patria potestas 65 -- Proprietary incapacity of filiusfamilias 68 -- Position of slaves , in law and in fact 69 -- 2. Creation and termination of slavery 71 -- How slavery arises 71 -- How slavery ends-manumission 72 -- Consequences of manumission 75 -- Public control of manumission 76 -- 3. Creation and termination of patria potestas 76 -- How patria potestas arises 76 -- How patria potestas ends 79 -- 4. Marriage 80 -- Main characteristics 80 -- Manus 82 -- Iustae nuptiae and non - Roman marriage 83 -- Concubinage 83 -- Legitimation 84 -- Divorce 85 -- Matrimonial property 87 -- 5. Guardianship 90 -- Tutela impuberum 90 -- Cura minorum 93 -- Other forms of guardianship 95 -- 6. Capitis deminutio 96 -- III. LAW OF PROPERTY -- Introductory The Law of Things 98 -- 1. Fundamental Distinctions 99 -- Property and obligations - actions and rights in rem and in personam 99 -- Contract and conveyance 103 -- Classifications of res 105 -- Ownership and possession 107 -- 2. Possession 107 -- Protection of possession 108 -- Importance of possession 109 -- Who has possession ? 110 -- Possession as a fact 114 -- 3. Modes of acquisition of corporeal things 115 -- 4. Derivative modes - Conveyances 116 -- Mancipatio , in iure cession 116 -- Traditio 117 -- 5. Original Civil Mode - Prescription 120 -- Introductory limitation and prescription 120 -- Usucapio 122 -- The bonitary owner and the bona fide possessor 125 -- Longi temporis prescriptio and Justinian's reforms 128 -- Modern law and the inviolability of ownership 129 -- 6. Original natural modes 130 -- Occupatio 130 -- Increment by rivers 132 -- Merger 133 -- Specificatio 136 -- Acquisition of fruits 138 -- Treasure trove 140 -- 7. Servitudes 140 -- Introductory iura in re aliena 140 -- Praedial servitudes 141 -- Personal servitudes 144 -- -- The Roman law of servitudes and modern law 147 -- 8. Other iura in re aliena 148 -- Emphyteusis and superficies 148 -- Real security 149 -- 9. Ownership 153 -- IV. LAW OF OBLIGATIONS -- Introduction 158 -- I. CONTRACTS 159 -- 1. Historical Development 159 -- The idea of debt 159 -- Promissory and ' real ' debt 160 -- The consensual contracts 161 -- Unilateral and bilateral contracts 162 -- Strict iuris and bonae fidei actions 163 -- The classification of Gaius and Justinian 164 -- Law of contracts, not law of contract 165 -- Methods of contracting and types of contract 166 -- 2. The Informal Contracts 167 -- (a) The real contracts 167 -- The individual contracts Obligations re in Gaius 167 -- Relative unimportance of the real contracts 168 -- Standards of care 169 -- (b) The consensual contracts 171 -- (1) Sale ( emptio venditio ) 171 -- Formation of the contract 172 -- Effects of the contract 178 -- Duties of the seller 180 -- Duties of the buyer 182 -- (2) Hire ( locatio conductio ) 182 -- Scope and character 182 -- Formation of the contract 184 -- Effects of the contract 185 -- (3) Partnership ( societas ) 185 -- Formation of the contract 185 -- Incidents of the contract 186 -- (4) Mandate ( mandatum ) 187 -- (c) Innominate contracts 189 -- (d) Pacts 191 -- 3. The Formal Contracts 193 -- (a) The contract verbis the stipulatio 193 -- Classical form 193 -- Function 193 -- Degeneration 194 -- (b) The contract literis 196 -- The classical contract 196 -- The contract of Justinian ' s Institutes 197 -- Discharge of Obligations 198 -- Privity of Contract 199 -- The principle 199 -- Novation and delegation 199 -- Assignment 200 -- Agency 201 -- 6. Suretyship 204 -- 7. Modern Civil law 205 -- II. DELICT AND QUASI-DELICT 207 -- I. Introduction 207 -- Crime and delict 207 -- Penal character of delictal actions 209 -- The classification of the Institutes 210 -- 2. Furtum and Rapina 211 -- Archaic features 212 -- What constitutes furtum 212 -- The plaintiff 214 -- Reipersecutory actions 215 -- Rapina 215 -- 3. Iniuria 215 -- Classical scope of the delict 215 -- Earlier development 216 -- Penal character 217 -- 4. Damnum iniuria datum 218 -- Lex Aquilia 218 -- Essential elements of the delict 218 -- 5. Praetorian delicts 222 -- 6. Noxal Liability 223 -- Noxal surrender 223 -- Damage by animals 224 -- 7. Quasi-delict 224 -- 8. Modern law 226 -- Civil law 226 -- Common law 226 -- III. QUASI - CONTRACT 227 -- Negotiorum gestio 227 -- The condictio 229 -- Unjust enrichment 231 -- V. LAW OF SUCCESSION 234 -- I. General Principles-Civil law 235 -- Universal succession 235 -- Heres, hereditas 236 -- Types of heres 237 -- Devices to mitigate the inconveniences of universal succession 239 -- Semel heres , semper heres 241-- 2. Praetorian law - Bonorum possession 243 -- General principles of bonorum possession 243 -- Remedies of the bonorum possessor 245 -- 3. Intestate Succession 246 -- Preliminary notions 246 -- Civil law 247 -- Bonorum possessio ab intestate 248 -- The system of the Novels 250 -- 4. Testamentary Succession 251 -- The early will 253 -- Bonorum possessio secundum tabulas ; the ' Praetorian will ' 254 -- Later forms of will 255 -- Internal requirements of a will 257 -- Substitutions 258 -- Restrictions on the power of testation 260 -- 5. Gifts out of the Inheritance 264 -- Forms of legacy 264 -- Restrictions on amount of legacies - lex Falcidia 266 -- Donatio mortis causa 266 -- Fideicommissa 267 -- Assimilation of fideicommissum , legacy , and donatio mortis causa 269 -- Codicils 270 -- SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY 271 -- GLOSSARY 273 -- INDEX 293 --