Università Roma Tre

The course analyzes the historical evolution of Roman Private Law from the origins to the Justinian age. The Roman Private Law’s topics are:
- legal theory and history of law (2 hours)
- general traits of the different ages of Roman Law (3 hours)
- tradition of Roman Law (6 hours)
- political organization of Rome (3 hours)
- sources of Roman Law (2 hours)
- subjects of law: legal capacity and capacity to act (2 hours)
- legal facts and acts (2 hours)
- family law (freeborn, citizen and slaves, the Roman family, marriage, the father’s power) (6 hours)
- Roman civil trial (18 hours)
- ownership, possession other rights in rem (8 hours)
- obligations (the nature of obligation, general features of contracts, atypical contracts, agreements, quasi-contractual obligations, quasi-offence law, warranty obligations, discharge of obligations) (14 hours)
- successions (testamentary succession, legacies, intestate succession) (14 hours)
The objective of this course is to determine how and how far Roman law and other legal systems provided a framework for, and even perhaps facilitated, economic development, social change and political evolution, and whether that development, change and evolution modified the content and procedures of Roman law and other ancient legal systems; and how the use of legal evidence may lead to a better understanding of ancient societies, and vice versa.

MANNINO V., Introduzione alla storia del diritto privato dei Romani (3a ed.), Torino, Giappichelli, 2018.

This course has to provide the basic knowledge of Roman private law and civil procedure, with coverage of all key topics, including the Roman systems of the sources of law and the role of the jurists.
The study of Roman law is always connected on the one side to the broader social, political and economic Roman context, on the other side to modern legal systems.
The topics are:
General traits of the different ages of Roman law.
Sources of Roman law.
Legal theory and history of law.
Civil procedure.
Law of persons and family.
Law of property and possession.
Law of obligations.
Law of succession.
The Roman jurists and their methods.

- G. PUGLIESE –F. SITZIA-L. VACCA, MANUALE DI ISTITUZIONI DI DIRITTO ROMANO, GIAPPICHELLI, TORINO 2012.
-LE ISTITUZIONI DI GAIO. TRADUZIONE ITALIANA a cura di M. Balzarini, Giappichelli, TORINO, 2000


FOR THE ATTENDING STUDENTS:
- G. PUGLIESE –F.SITZIA-L. VACCA, MANUALE DI ISTITUZIONI DI DIRITTO ROMANO, GIAPPICHELLI, TORINO 2012, WITH THE EXCLUSION OF THE PARAGRAPHS OF PARTE III NN. 228 TO 235; 256 TO 267; 269 TO 270.3; 272; 287 TO 295; 297-298; 300 TO 310.
-LE ISTITUZIONI DI GAIO. TRADUZIONE ITALIANA a cura di M. Balzarini, Giappichelli, TORINO, 2000

The course analyzes the historical evolution of Roman Private Law from the origins to the Justinian age. The Roman Private Law’s topics are:
- legal theory and history of law (2 hours)
- general traits of the different ages of Roman Law (3 hours)
- tradition of Roman Law (6 hours)
- political organization of Rome (3 hours)
- sources of Roman Law (2 hours)
- subjects of law: legal capacity and capacity to act (2 hours)
- legal facts and acts (2 hours)
- family law (freeborn, citizen and slaves, the Roman family, marriage, the father’s power) (6 hours)
- Roman civil trial (18 hours)
- ownership, possession other rights in rem (8 hours)
- obligations (the nature of obligation, general features of contracts, atypical contracts, agreements, quasi-contractual obligations, quasi-offence law, warranty obligations, discharge of obligations) (14 hours)
- successions (testamentary succession, legacies, intestate succession) (14 hours)
The objective of this course is to determine how and how far Roman law and other legal systems provided a framework for, and even perhaps facilitated, economic development, social change and political evolution, and whether that development, change and evolution modified the content and procedures of Roman law and other ancient legal systems; and how the use of legal evidence may lead to a better understanding of ancient societies, and vice versa.

MANNINO V., Introduzione alla storia del diritto privato dei Romani (3a ed.), Torino, Giappichelli, 2018.