The First Year of Roman Law

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Description
ence, to foreign Romanists, and with citations which can be multiplied the more easily, as quite often they are produced at second hand.
Thinking I should follow very closely the teachings of the law faculty of Paris, I have laid under contri- bution only five authors, quite contemporaneous, and whose works are in the hands or at the command of every student: MM. Cuq (Institutions juridiques des Romains); Esmein (Mélanges); Girard (Manuel élé- mentaire de droit romain and Textes de droit romain); Gérardin (Articles in the Nouvelle Revue historique); Jobbé-Duval (Études sur l'histoire de la procedure civile).
The paging indicated in the notes is that of the last edition of the works cited.
1 That is, civilians, or authorities on the Roman or civil law.-S.

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Table of Contents
BOOK I HISTORY OF THE ROMAN LAW
TITLE I FIRST PERIOD -LEGENDARY PERIOD
CHAPTER I. The Patrician City
CHAPTER II. The Patrician-Plebeian City
Section I. The End of the Royal Period
Section II. The Beginnings of the Republic
TITLE II SECOND PERIOD HISTORIC REPUBLICAN PERIOD
CHAPTER I. The Rise of the Plebs
CHAPTER II. The Decadence of the Republic CHAPTER III. Sources of Law during this Period
TITLE III THIRD PERIOD -THE IMPERIAL DUARCHY
TITLE IV FOURTH PERIOD THE TRUE MONARCHY
TITLE V BA FIFTH PERIOD THE LATER EMPIRE - JUSTINIAN
BOOK II PERSONS
TITLE I PRELIMINARY CONCEPTIONS
TITLE II STATUS LIBERTATIS
CHAPTER I. Freemen and Slaves.
Section I. Condition of Slaves
Section II. Sources of Slavery
Section III. Quasi-Slavery
CHAPTER II. Freeborn and Freed.
Section I. Manumission
Section II. Condition of Freedmen
TITLE III STATUS DIVISION
CHAPTER I. Citizens
CHAPTER II
Non-citizens
Section I. Peregrini properly so-called
Section II. Latins.
TITLE IV STATUS FAMILIAE
CHAPTER I. The Roman Family.
CHAPTER II. The Paternal Power.
CHAPTER III. Sources of the Patria Potestas
Section I. Justae Nuptiae
§ 1. Marriage and Manus
§ 2. The Essential Conditions of Marriage
§ 3. Effects of Marriage
§ 4. Dissolution of Marriage
§ 5. Second Marriages
Section II. Adoption
§ 1. Adoption in General
§ 2. Arrogatio
§ 3. Adoption properly so-called
Section III. Legitimation
CHAPTER IV. Dissolution of the Paternal Power Appendix to Titles I to III and to Sections I to IV of Title IV of Book II. Capitis deminu tiones
CHAPTER V. Incapacities of Fact
Section I. Preliminary Notions
Section II. Tutela.
§ 1. Tutela in General
§ 2. Guardianship of Minors
§3. Guardianship of Women (tutela mulierum)
Section III. Curatelae
§ 1. Of Curatela in General
§ 2. Curatorship of the Furiosus
§3. Curatorship of the Spendthrift (prodigus)
§ 4. Curatorship of Minors under the Age of Twenty-five Years.
BOOK III THINGS
TITLE I DIVISION OF THINGS
TITLE II SUMMARY NOTIONS AS TO OBLIGATIONS
CHAPTER I. The Obligatory Right and its Sources
CHAPTER II. Formalism
BOOK IV ACTIONS
TITLE I GENERAL AND HISTORICAL NOTIONS- THE COURTS
TITLE II SYSTEMS OF PROCEDURE
CHAPTER I. The Legis Actiones
CHAPTER II. The Formulary Procedure.
Section I. Fundamental Idea of the System
Section II. Composition of the Formula. Section III. Powers and Rôle of the Judex
Section IV. Duration of Actions and of Proceedings
Section V. Classification of Actions
Section VI. Sketch of a Lawsuit in the Formulary Era
CHAPTER III. The Extraordinary Procedure
BOOK V OWNERSHIP
TITLE I ATTRIBUTES AND EVOLUTION OF OWNERSHIP
TITLE II POSSESSION
CHAPTER I. Elements, Acquisition, Loss of Possession
CHAPTER II. Possessory Protection
TITLE III DIFFERENT KINDS OF OWNERSHIP
TITLE IV SANCTION FOR THE RIGHT OF OWNERSHIP
CHAPTER I. Generalities
CHAPTER II. Rei Vindicatio
CHAPTER III. The Actio Publiciana
CHAPTER IV. Other Actions protecting Ownership
TITLE V MODES OF ACQUIRING OWNERSHIP
CHAPTER I. Modes of the Jus Civile.
CHAPTER II. Modes of the Natural Law
TITLE VI EXTINCTION OF THE RIGHT OF OWNERSHIP
TITLE VII CIVIL AND PRAETORIAN DISMEMBERMENTS OF THE Right OF OWNERSHIP
CHAPTER I. Civil Dismemberments of Ownership
Section I. Praedial Servitudes.
§ 1. Character and Divisions of Praedial Servi- tudes
§ 2. Acquisition of Praedial Servitudes
§ 3. Extinguishment of Praedial Servitudes Section II. Personal Servitudes
§ 1. Usufructus
§ 2. Usus, Habitatio, Operae
Section III. Actions relative to Servitudes
CHAPTER II. Praetorian Dismemberments of the Right of Ownership
BOOK VI SUCCESSIONS
TITLE I SUCCESSION IN GENERAL - INSTITUTION OF THE HEIR
TITLE II CONDITIONS FOR THE VALIDITY OF WILLS
CHAPTER I. Forms of Wills
CHAPTER II. Conditions Fundamental to the Validity of Wills (testamenti factio).
CHAPTER III. Invalidation of Wills
CHAPTER IV. Freedom to make a Will and its Re- strictions
TITLE III INTESTATE SUCCESSION
TITLE IV ACCEPTANCE AND DISCLAIMER OF THE INHERITANCE
TITLE V FIDEICOMMISSA HEREDITATIS.
TITLE VI ACTIONS CONCERNING THE HEREDITAS
BOOK VII DONATIONS INTER VIVOS AND MORTIS CAUSA
TITLE I DONATIONES INTER VIVOS
CHAPTER I. Gifts Inter Vivos
Section I. Gifts in General
Section II. Gifts between Husband and Wife CHAPTER II. Provisions in Favor of Marriage. Section I. Dos.
Section II. Donatio Propter Nuptiae.
TITLE II DONATIONES MORTIS CAUSA
CHAPTER I. Gifts Mortis Causa
CHAPTER II. Legacies and Fideicommissa.
Section I. Codicils
Section II. Legacies
Section III. Singular Fideicommissa
Section IV. Restriction of the Right to make Legacies the lex Falcidia
Section V. Effects of Legacies and Fideicom-missa
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Author Details
Ferrnand Bernard