Historical Introduction To The Private Law Of Rome

Reprint of the uncommon third and final edition. This book grew out of an article in the Encyclpedia Brittanica. An "instant classic," it soon became a fixture on reading lists and bibliographies. According to the Law Quarterly Review, "no one who has read the book can have felt any doubt that the author had mastered his authorities, or that he had a singularly wide and profound knowledge of the continental literature dealing with the subject" (15:198). The second and third editions were equally well-received. The third is the best edition because it contains the equally valuable notes of Goudy and Grant.

CONTENTS

PART I THE REGAL PERIOD
CH. I. Social and Political condition of Rome and its population down to the time of Servius Tullius
CH. II. Regulatives of public and private order
CH. III. Institutions of the private law
CH. IV. The Servian reforms

PART II THE JUS CIVILE
CH. I. Historical events that influenced the law
CH. II. The twelve tables
CH. III. The private law within and beyond the tables
CH. IV. Judicial procedure under the Decemviral system
CH. V. The stipulation and the legis actio per condictionem

PART III THE JUS GENTIUM AND JUS HONORARIUM (Latter half of the Republic)
CH. I. The influences that operated on the law
CH. II. Factors of the law
CH. III. Substantive changes in the law during the period

PART IV THE JUS NATURALE AND MATURITY OF ROMAN JURISPRUDENCE (The Empire until the Time of Diocletian)
CH. I. Characteristics and formative agencies of the law during the period
CH. II. Jurisprudence
CH. III. Substantive changes in the law during the period
CH. IV. Judicial procedure

PART V
THE PERIOD OF CODIFICATION (Diocletian to Justinian)
CH. I. Historical events that influenced the law
CH. II. Anet-Justinian collections of statute and jurisprudence
CH. III. The Justinian law
CH. IV. The Justinian law-books

APPENDIX
ADDITIONAL BY EDITOR OF SECOND EDITION
INDEX