A casebook on the Roman law of contracts /

"This casebook explores the writings of Roman lawyers on the law of contracts, a rich and hugely influential area of Roman private law. The 235 "Cases" are actual texts deriving, for the most part, from the Digest of Justinian (535 CE), but written hundreds of years earlier during the...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Frier, Bruce W., 1943- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2021]
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Capacity to contract
  • Stipulation : a formal contract
  • Contracts created through delivery ("real contracts")
  • Sale : a contract created through informal agreement
  • Other consensual contracts : problems in execution
  • Filling in the gaps : contracts created through one party's performance
  • Third-party rights and responsibilities
  • Quasi-contract.