ds_gen N. 8 – 2009 – Notizie

 

 

Antun Malenica

 

The History of Roman Law

 

 

 

 

 

 

University of Novi sad Faculty of law

 

2009 – 182 pp. – isbn/ 978-86-7774-043-6

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

                                            Contents

 

Foreword to the English edition

                                                                                                                                           9

 

                                                     Introduction

Cultural significance of Roman law

                                                                                                                                          11

Sources of knowledge of Roman law

                                                                                                                                          13

The importance of studying Roman law

                                                                                                                                          15

 

                                                     Chapter  I

GENERAL VIEW OF THE DEVELOPMENT OF ROME,

ROMAN LAW AND LEGAL SYSTEM

 

Territory

                                                                                                                                         20

Population

                                                                                                                                         22

Economy

                                                                                                                                         26

1. General overview of the Roman economy development

                                                                                                                                         26

2. Landed properties

                                                                                                                                         30

                 3. Mining industry and trade

                                                                                                                                         33

                 4. Commerce

                                                                                                                                         33

                 5. Banking industry

                                                                                                                                         35

                 6. Character of production relations

                                                                                                                                         36

                 7. Government intervention in economy

                                                                                                                                          38

The organisation of Public authority

                                                                                                                                         40

                 1. Archaic period

                                                                                                                                         40

                 2. Period of the Republic

                                                                                                                                         44

                 3. The Principate

                                                                                                                                         49

                 4. The Dominate

                                                                                                                                         52

                 5. Decline of the Empire

                                                                                                                                         53

Law and legal system

                                                                                                                                         56

                 1. Periodization

                                                                                                                                         56

                 2. Archaic period

                                                                                                                                         58

                             a) Sources of the earliest law

                                                                                                                                         58

                             b) The Law of the Twelve Tables

                                                                                                                                         59

                             c) International treaties

                                                                                                                                         67

                             d) Ius fetiale

                                                                                                                                         68

                             e) Characteristics of ancient ius civile

                                                                                                                                         69

                 2. Preclassical period

                                                                                                                                         70

                             a) Ius civile

                                                                                                                                         70

                             b) Ius gentium

                                                                                                                                         75

                             c) General characteristics of preclassical law

                                                                                                                                         78

                 2. Classical period

                                                                                                                                         78

                             a) Sources of law

                                                                                                                                         78

                             b) Changes in the legal system and general features of law

                                                                                                                                         86

                 2. Postclassical period

                                                                                                                                         87

                             a) Sources of law

                                                                                                                                         87

                             b) Postclassical legal collections of laws

                                                                                                                                         89

                             c) Justinian’s codification

                                                                                                                                         94

                             d) Elements of non-uniformity in the legal system

                                  and characteristics of the law

                                                                                                                                       102

 

                                                     Chapter  II

ROMAN DOCTRINE OF LAW AND SOURCES OF LAW

 

Perception of law in the archaic period

                                                                                                                                       107

Perception of law in the preclassical period

                                                                                                                                       110

1. Understanding of the role and nature of law

                                                                                                                                       110

2. Perception of sources of law

                                                                                                                                       112

Perception of law in the classical period

                                                                                                                                       113

1. Classical perception of law

                                                                                                                                       113

2. Classifications of law in classical doctrine

                                                                                                                                       115

3. Classical doctrine of the sources of law

                                                                                                                                       119

Perception of law in the classical period

                                                                                                                                       121

1. Postclassical view on law

                                                                                                                                       121

2. Postclassical view on the sources of law

                                                                                                                                       123

 

                                                     Chapter  III

ROMAN LAW after the fall of the roman Empire

 

Roman law in Eastern Europe

                                                                                                                                       126

1. Roman law in Byzantium

                                                                                                                                       126

2. Roman law after the fall of Byzantium under Ottoman rule

                                                                                                                                       128

3. Reception of Roman law in the Serbian medieval state

                                                                                                                                       130

4. Reception of Roman law in the Serbian Civil Code

                                                                                                                                       134

5. Reception of Roman law in other countries of the East

                                                                                                                                       138

Roman law in Western Europe

                                                                                                                                       139

1. Barbarian Codes of Roman law

                                                                                                                                       139

2. Roman law in Western Europe from the 6th to the 11 ch century

                                                                                                                                       142

3. Law schools and the study of Roman law

                                                                                                                                       143

                             a) The Glossators

                                                                                                                                       143

                             b) The Postglossators

                                                                                                                                       151

                             c) The Humanistic School

                                                                                                                                       153

                             d) School of natural law

                                                                                                                                       156

                             e) The Historical law-school

                                                                                                                                       163

                             f) Pandect-Science

                                                                                                                                       166

4. Reception of Roman law in practice

                                                                                                                                       168

                             a) Church and reception

                                                                                                                                       169

                             b) Glossators and reception

                                                                                                                                       171

                             c) Postglossators and reception

                                                                                                                                       172

                             d) French Humanistic Jurisprudence

                                                                                                                                       173

                             e) School of natural law and modern codification of civil law

                                                                                                                                       174

                             f) German historical school, pandect science and

                                 modern codification of civil law

                                                                                                                                       175

                             g) Actual reception of Roman law

                                                                                                                                       180