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