Author: Metzger, Ernest; editor:
Title: A Companion to Justinian’s Institutes
Description: Ithaca [NY], Cornell University Press, (1998). orig.boards. 24x15cm, xvii,283 pp. Minor rubbing. A label to rear cover. VG. ¶ Contents: Sources; The Three Components of Private Law; Sources of Written Law; Custom; Divisions of Private Law [Geoffrey MacCormack]; Persons: Slavery; Family Authority; Marriage; Emergence from Family Authority; Guardianship & Supervision [O.F. Robinson]; Property: Ownership & Possession; Acquisition of Ownership; Lesser Real Rights [D.L. Carey Miller]; Succession:Testate Succession on Death; Intestate Succession on Death; Other Cases of Universal Succession [William M. Gordon]; Obligations: Obligations Contracted by Conduct; Obligations by Words & their Applications; Obligations by Writing; Obligations by Agreement; Innominate Contracts & Pacts; Obligations as though from Contract; Obligations Acquired through Others; Discharge of Obligations; Obligations from Delict; Obligations as though from Delict [Robin Evans-Jones; Geoffrey MacCormack]; Actions: The Formulary Procedure; The Law of Actions;Real & Personal Action; State-Law & Honorary Actions; Restorative, Penal & Hybrid Actions; Other Classifcations [Ernest Metzger]; Criminal Trials: Capital & Non-Capital Crimes; Specific Offences; Criminal Courts; Procedural Charges [O.F. Robinson].

Keywords: Jurisprudence, Justinian, Roman Law, Classical Philology, Legal History, Ancient Rome, , ,