Roman law: an introduction
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Abbreviations -- Chronological tables -- PART I: Roman law in historical context -- 1. Basic legal concepts and values -- Significance of Roman law -- Classical Roman law -- Greek impact on Roman law...
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| Format: | Electronic Book |
| Language: | English |
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Milton
Routledge
2018
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| In: | Year: 2018 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Roman law
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| Further subjects: | B
Introduction
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| Summary: | Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Abbreviations -- Chronological tables -- PART I: Roman law in historical context -- 1. Basic legal concepts and values -- Significance of Roman law -- Classical Roman law -- Greek impact on Roman law -- Ius publicum and ius privatum -- Auctoritas and potestas -- Further reading -- 2. Constitutional background of Roman law -- Foundation of Rome: the monarchy -- Constitution of the Roman Republic -- Popular assemblies -- Republican magistrates -- Functions of the magistrates -- The Senate -- The Principate -- The later Roman Empire -- The provinces -- Italy -- Colonies -- Tributary cities and tax-free cities -- Further reading -- 3. Sources of Roman law -- The Twelve Tables -- Leges and plebiscita -- The edicts of the magistrates -- Imperial constitutions -- The Constitutio Antoniniana -- The Gregorian and Hermogenian Codes -- The Theodosian Code -- The Law of Citations -- Further reading -- 4. The jurists and the legal science -- Early history of jurisprudence -- The founders of the civil law -- Quintus Mucius Scaevola Pontifex -- Servius Sulpicius Rufus -- Other republican jurists -- Jurists of the early Principate -- Marcus Antistius Labeo -- Masurius Sabinus -- Jurists of the second century -- Celsus the Younger -- Salvius Julianus -- Sextus Pomponius -- Gaius and his Institutes -- Quintus Cervidius Scaevola -- The late classical jurisprudence -- Aemilius Papinianus -- Julius Paulus -- Domitius Ulpianus -- Herennius Modestinus -- The end of classical jurisprudence -- Further reading -- 5. Justinian and the Corpus Iuris -- Emperor Justinian -- Justinian's compilation -- Justinian's Code -- The Digest -- Interpolations -- The Institutes -- The Novels of Justinian -- The Basilika -- Further reading -- 6. The revival of Roman law The recovery of the Digest -- The civil law glossators -- The commentators -- Roman law and canon law -- Roman law and English law -- The French humanists -- The German "modern use" of the Digest -- The Dutch Elegant Jurisprudence -- The school of natural law -- The age of codification -- The German historical school -- The school of pandectists and the German Civil Code -- The jurisprudence of interests -- Roman law in the United States -- Roman law in the twentieth century -- Roman law and global law -- Further reading -- PART II: Roman law in action -- 7. Civil litigation -- The formulary procedure -- Preliminary proceedings -- Litigants before the praetor -- Representation in litigation -- The formula of the action -- Classifications of actions -- Praetorian remedies -- Execution of the judgment -- Arbitration -- Further reading -- 8. Family law -- Persona, caput, and status -- Paternal power (patria potestas) -- Guardianship (tutela) -- Curatorship (cura or curatio) -- Women and guardianship over women -- Slaves -- Manumission -- Patrons and freedmen -- Unlimited liability of the paterfamilias -- Noxal liability -- Marriage -- Dowry -- Divorce and remarriage -- Concubinage -- Augustan legislation on marriage -- Constantine's legislation on family and marriage -- Justinian's legislation on marriage -- Further reading -- 9. Property law -- The law of things (res) -- Classification of things -- Ownership -- Co-ownership (communio) -- Possession -- Interdictal protection of possession -- Acquisition of ownership -- Mancipatio and in iure cessio -- Occupatio, accession, specification -- Acquisition of fruits -- Donation -- Usucaption -- Interdictum quem fundum and actio ad exhibendum -- Predial servitudes or land easements -- Emphyteusis and superficies -- Further reading -- 10. The law of succession -- Universal succession and hereditas Types of succession -- Heir (heres) -- Types of heirs -- Intestate succession -- Praetorian intestate succession -- The major reform on intestacy of Emperor Justinian -- Testamentary succession -- Forms of testaments -- Testamentary capacity -- Institution of the heir -- Substitutions -- The querela inofficiosi testamenti -- Hereditatis petitio and interdictum quorum bonorum -- Legacies -- Types of legacies -- Acquisition of legacies -- Further reading -- 11. The law of obligations I: contracts -- Obligation -- Civil, praetorian, and natural obligations -- Sources of obligations: contracts and delicts -- Types of contracts -- Verbal contract: stipulation -- Novation -- Literal contract -- Real contracts -- Hypothec -- Innominate contracts -- Consensual contracts -- Sale (emptio venditio) -- Liability for eviction and latent defects -- Letting and hiring (locatio conductio) -- Partnership (societas) -- Mandate (mandatum) -- Quasi contracts -- Undue payment (solutio indebiti) -- Further reading -- 12. The law of obligations II: delicts -- Penal actions (actiones poenales) -- Actiones mixtae and rei persecutoriae -- Theft (furtum) -- Robbery (rapina) -- Wrongful loss (damnum iniuria) -- Loss caused by animals -- Injury (iniuria) -- Duress (metus) -- Fraud (dolus) -- Quasi delicts -- Further reading -- General bibliography -- Index |
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| ISBN: | 1351111450 |