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

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 sujective legal situations. Notes on the protection of subjective rights. Legal protection of factual situations. Legal entities.

Second unit: Obligations

The notion of obligation. The system of obligation's sources. The typical obligations. Subjective active and passive modifications. Fulfillment of the obligations. Methods for extinguishing obligations other than fulfillment. Liability due to defalt. The asset guarantee and the means for retaining the same. Tort liability and liability due to illicit behaviour.

Third unit: The contract

The notion of the parties' freedom to negotiate. Negotiating and non-negotiating acts. Typical or non-typical nature of negotiating process. The notion of contract. Contracts concluded by mutual agreement and contracts requiring the delivery of parties' subject matter. The essential elements. Ancillary elements. Direct and indirect representation. Interpretation of the contract. Invalidity of negotiations. Cancellation. Termination. Simulation. Consumer protection. Notes on the most important typical contracts (The sale and purchase. The mandate. The procurement. The carriage. The granting of usage. The loan. The donation).

For the purpose of preparation can be used any handbook in commerce.
It is essential the consultation of Civil Code.
As a special part of the program, must be studied "Le pretese tutelabili attraverso l'azione di classe" (CEDAM, 2012), only for the first chapter.