The Law of Obligations: Roman Foundations of the Civilian TraditionThis book is widely regarded as one of the most remarkable achievements in Roman Law and Comparative Law scholarship this century - a fact attested to by the universal acclaim with which it has been received throughout Europe, America, and beyond. As a work of Roman Law scholarship it fuses the vast volume of 20th century scholarship on the Roman law of obligations into a clear and very readable (and in many ways original) account of the law. As a work of comparative law it traces the transformation of the Roman law of obligations over the centuries into what is now modern German, English and South African law, presenting the reader with a contrast between these legal systems which is unique both in its scope and its depth. As a whole the book is written with a deep understanding of human nature and of many social, economic, and other forces that determine the face of the law. |
Contents
Preface | li |
Principal Works Cited | lix |
CHAPTER 1OBLIGATIO | 1 |
Divisio Obligationum | 10 |
PART II | 30 |
STIPULATIO ALTERI REPRESENTATION | 34 |
Strategies to evade the restriction | 38 |
Agency | 45 |
Common mistake | 596 |
Iuris ignorantia nocet facti ignorantia non nocet | 604 |
Interpretation of Contracts | 621 |
Postreception Developments | 635 |
Special Problem Situations | 643 |
Metus and DolusDuress and Fraud | 651 |
Dolus | 662 |
Invalidity and Reasons for Invalidity | 678 |
Cession | 58 |
Stipulatio | 59 |
STIPULATIO | 65 |
Relaxation of the word formalism | 72 |
CHAPTER 4STIPULATIO POENAE | 95 |
Forfeiture of the penalty | 104 |
Semel commissa poena non evanescit | 110 |
Sponsio Fidepromissio and Fideiussio | 117 |
Idem Debitum | 125 |
Beneficium divisionis | 131 |
Stipulatio poenaeConventional penalties | 135 |
Special Types of Suretyship Transactions | 137 |
Women as Sureties | 145 |
PART III | 153 |
The History of the Interest Rates and Usury | 166 |
Special Types of Loan | 177 |
Commodatum Depositum PignusLoan for Use | 183 |
CHAPTER 7COMMODATUM DEPOSITUM PIGNUS | 188 |
Depositum | 205 |
Pignus | 220 |
PART IV | 230 |
The sale of res extra commercium or of a free man | 241 |
The Purchase Price | 250 |
Emptio venditio IISale Main Effects | 271 |
The Duties of the Parties | 277 |
The Passing of the Risk | 281 |
Emptio venditio IIISale Warranty of Title and | 293 |
Locatio conductio IMainly Lease | 299 |
Liability for Latent Defects | 305 |
Locatio conductio IIContract of Employment Contract | 338 |
Locatio Conductio Rei | 351 |
LOCATIO CONDUCTIO II | 384 |
Locatio Conductio Operis | 393 |
MandatumMandate | 413 |
The range of application of mandatum | 420 |
The liability of the mandatarius | 426 |
Chapter Page | 433 |
Requirements of the actio negotiorum gestorum | 440 |
Negotiorum gestio in modern law | 447 |
Justinian Ius Commune and Modern | 466 |
PART V | 477 |
The prohibition of donationes inter virum et uxorem | 484 |
The law of donation under Constantine | 490 |
Donation under the ius commune and in modern law | 498 |
Pacta and Innominate Real Contracts | 508 |
Compromissum as Example | 526 |
Innominate Real Contracts | 532 |
Pacta vestita and pacta nuda | 538 |
Corpus Juris Canonici | 542 |
The position of the natural lawyers summary | 544 |
PART VI | 546 |
Consensus | 559 |
Pacta Sunt Servanda | 576 |
ErrorMistake | 583 |
Illegality | 697 |
Immorality | 706 |
Condicio and DiesConditions and Time Clauses | 716 |
Resolutive Conditions | 731 |
Dies | 741 |
Termination of Obligations | 748 |
Release | 754 |
Compensatio | 760 |
The Problem of Specific Performance | 770 |
Breach of Contract | 783 |
Mora Debitoris | 790 |
Rescission as a Remedy for Breach of Contract | 800 |
c Code civil | 801 |
Impossibility of Performance and Breach | 806 |
Breach of contract in German law | 813 |
Quod Interest Damages and Breach of Contract | 824 |
navigarunt | 833 |
PART VII | 834 |
The Subsequent Fate of the Condictiones | 857 |
Condictio sine causa | 871 |
Enrichment Remedies in Modern Law | 887 |
The Measure of Enrichment Liability | 895 |
PART VIII | 902 |
The development of the law of torts | 908 |
The origins of delict in Roman law | 914 |
Plan of treatment | 921 |
FurtumTheft | 922 |
The Actions Arising from Theft | 932 |
Furtum in the Ius Commune | 943 |
Lex Aquilia I | 953 |
The Assessment of the Sum of Condemnation | 961 |
The Nature of the Actio Legis Aquiliae | 969 |
Harmful | 975 |
Some Additional Reflections | 988 |
Lex Aquilia II | 998 |
The relationship between iniuria and culpa | 1004 |
The Protection of a Freemans Bodily Integrity | 1014 |
Purely patrimonial loss | 1022 |
Towards the Modern Generalized Law of Delict | 1031 |
Liability for omissions | 1043 |
Actio iniuriarumInfringements of Personality Rights | 1050 |
The Usus Modernus of the Actio Iniuriarum | 1062 |
Defamation in English Law | 1074 |
Compromise solutions | 1080 |
Strict Liability | 1095 |
Vicarious Liability | 1118 |
Quasidelictual Liability | 1126 |
Strict Liability in English Law | 1135 |
Origin and Application of Art 1384 Code Civil | 1141 |
Index of Main Sources including Table of Cases | 1143 |
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