Università Roma Tre

The course is aimed at providing the framework of the current civil law system. Through the study of the civil code, read in connection with the constitutional principles and the rules descending from the participation of Italy to the European Union, students will learn the current rules applicable to private relations, as a result of the transformations determined by the mandatory comparison with the economic and social experience. The programme of the course envisages the following subject matters: the norms and the source of law - the lexicon of concepts - the subjects: physical persons, legal entities, de facto entities - the object: goods, real rights and possession - sources, structure and events of the contractual relations - the patrimonial liability of the debtor and the guarantees of the credit - the civil liability arising from criminal offences - the law of contracts in general - the consumer's contracts.

ROPPO, Diritto privato, Linee essenziali, Quinta edizione, 2018 Il manuale espone l'intera materia del corso e dovrà quindi essere studiato integralmente.

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TORRENTE, SCHLESINGER, Manuale di diritto privato,, ult. ed., Capitoli da I a XLII ed inoltre i Capitoli XLIII, XLIV, LIV, LV

E' comunque essenziale accompagnare lo studio del manuale con la consultazione diretta del testo delle norme di legge. Le principali Case editrici (Giuffré, Zanichelli, etc.) pubblicano annualmente un'edizione aggiornata del Codice civile, con la Costituzione, i Trattati UE e la leggi complementari

First unit: General theory
Sources of private law. Effectiveness of law in time and space. Law interpretation. Legal analogy. Legal subjectivity. Capacity. Classification of subjective legal situations. Acquisition and extinction of subjective legal situations. Legal protection of property and factual situations. Legal entities.
Second unit: Obligations
Notion of obligation. Obligation's sources. Typical obligations. Sujective active and passive modifications. Fulfillment. Methods for extinguishing obligations other than fulfillment. Liability due to default. The asset guarantee and the means for retaining the same. Tort liability and liability due to illicit behaviour.
Third unit: The contract
Frredom of negotiate. Negotiating and non-negotiating acts. Typical or non-typical nature of negotiating process. Notion of contract. Contracts concluded by mutual agreement and contracts requiring the delivery of their subject matter. Essential elements. Ancillary elements. Direct and indirect representation. Interpretation. Invalidity. Cancellation. Termination. Simulation. Consumer protection. Notes on the most important typical contracts (sale and purchase; mandate; procurement; carriage; granting of usage; donation).

It is essential, for the purpose of studying, to consult the italian Civil Code.
In respect of the handbooks (in an updated edition), the student may use at his/her discretion, for the parts corresponding to the examination programme, any essay currently on the market.
The training must be integrated through the study of the Professo's publication "Le pretese tutelabili attraverso l'azione di classe" CEDAM, Padua, 2012, (only the first part).