The Main Institutions of Roman Private Law

This 1931 book was written to replace The Elementary Principles of Roman Law, but it is not a second edition of that book. It is more systematic in plan: it aims at giving a central view of the different institutions of the Private Law and of the notions which underlie them. But its purpose is the same: its is for the use of students who have read the Institutes and little more, and it is intended to stimulate rather than to inform. It will still be of interest today.

Preface; 1. Sources of law; 2. The chief surviving sources independent of Justinian; 3. Persons; 4. Persons (cont.). The Family; 5. Persons (cont.). The Family (cont.); 6. Res. Property. Possession; 7. Acquisition of ownership; 8. Iura; 9. Representation in acquisition and alienation; 10. Acquisition per universitatem; 11. Acquisition per universitatem (cont.), intestacy, Bonorum Possessio; 12. Legacy and Fideicommissum. Family settlements; 13. Obligations; 14. Obligations (cont.). Contract; 15. Obligations (cont.). Quasi-contract; 16. Obligations (cont.). Incidental rules of Oligatio; 17. The law of security; 18. Obligations (cont.). Delict; 19. Litigation. Legis Actio. Real actions under the Formula; 20. Litigation (cont.). The Cognitio of later law.